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Cyclops

one of the people called cyclopes, alleged to be a savage race of one- CYMRIeyed giants in Sicily. The caverns of Ætna were their smithy, and blacksmiths were looked on as their descendants.

CYDNUS (sid'nus) s), a river in Cilicia, rising in the Taurus Mountains, anciently celebrated for the clearness and coolness of its waters. CYGNUS (the Swan), a large Northern constellation in the Milky Way, one of Ptolemy's original 48. It is surrounded by Draco, Cepheus, Lacerta, Pegasus, Vulpacula, and Lyra. One of its small stars of about the 5.5 magnitude, 61 Cygni, a well-known double as well, is one of our nearest neighbors among the stars. The determinations of its parallax are somewhat discordant, ranging from 0.27" to 0.56", giving in light-years a distance of from 12 to 6 years.

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