Κώρυκος

Korykos: a city in Kilikia. Parthenios in a propemptikon. Near it is the Korykian cave of the nymphs, a wondrous marvel, to which another on Parnassos is homonymous. The ethnonym is 'Korykios'. There he calls the city 'Korykeia'. 'Korykiotes' too is used, and perhaps it derives from the form 'Korykion' or from 'Korykia'. There is also Korykos, a mountain, spoken of in the masculine, a high one near Teos in Ionia and Erythrai, as per Hekataios in his Asia. There is also a homonymous harbour and a homonymous little island, at which, on the coastal voyage, there was a great pirate-base of the Korykaians, who listened in the harbours there to matters concerning the cargoes and voyages of merchants and in this way plotted against them. Hence the proverb applied to those who meddle in secrets: 'The Korykaian, it seems, was listening to him.' There is also Korykia, a promontory in Crete, and a harbour in Aithiopia.