ABSTRACT
Son of Aeneus and Aenete; king of the Doliones. He entertained the Argonauts hospitably. But later, when driven back to his country during the night by an adverse current, they were mistaken for pirates and attacked by the Doliones, and Cyzicus accidentally met his death in the battle. His wife Clite, on learning he was dead, killed herself in her grief. The Argonauts mourned him for several days and performed his funeral games. But even then they could not start again, because, as the seer Mopsus told them, Cybele desired to be propitiated for his death; and so the Argonauts offered sacrifices to her, and danced in the manner of the Corybantes, her attendant worshippers. The city of Cyzicus on the coast of the Sea of Marmora was named after him.
