CYPRUS. 39 
eerning it, in a manuscript preserved at Venice*, chap. 
From his very interesting account of Cyprus, we " /— ' 
learn that the erroneous notions entertained with 
regard to the locaUty of the city, originated 
with Stephen de Lusignan ; who was deceived by 
the name of a neighbouring village, called Citiy 
from a promontory at present bearing that 
appellation. Mariti places Citium between Salines 
and Larneca, upon the authority of the manu- 
script before mentioned, and the ruins he there 
observed^ . It is, as he remarks °, of some impor- 
tance to determine the true situation of a city 
once so renowned, owing to the celebrated men 
it produced, and the splendid actions of which 
it was the theatre. Yet it is singular, that this 
writer makes no mention of its Phoenician origin. 
Concerning this fact, so well ascertained, a few 
observations may therefore suffice. 
Citium, from whose ruins we shall now ^^'temdan 
Settle- 
consider both the modern towns of Salines and mcms. 
Larneca to have arisen, was founded, together 
with the city of Lapelhus, by a Phcenician king, 
(4) MS. Descript. of Cyprus, by Ascagne'savornien, in the library 
of Dominico Manni. 
(5) This is also the position assigned to it by Pococke. There is 
reason to believe it occupied a greater extent of territory, and reached 
from the port as far as Larneca. 
(6) Mariti i Travels, vol. I. p. 53. 
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