Cressa
Cressa, of Crete, Cretan
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
Sciant cuncti quod anno
Incarnat. Domini m. ccc. lxiv. die xiv. mensis Sept. apud Abbatiam
de Moysiac. Caturc. diœcesis, in exitum magnæ Cressæ RR. in Christo Pater et Dominus
Remundus de Salg, Dei gratia Patriarcha Antiochenus, etc. In hanc vocem
Editores : Cressa Nomen proprium loci, forsan desumtum a Creta, quæ ibi abundaret, aut ex
qua locus esset conditus. A creta derivata est Cressa nota:
Cressa ni
careat pulcra dies nota, apud Horatium. Si Crista, explicatio esset facilis ; nam censeretur hoc juramentum, vel hæc recognitio data in exitum magnæ Cressæ seu Cristæ, id est circa exitum loci sublimis ; nam Cresta et Crista significant verticem montis vel collis. Facilis fuit lectio
Cressæpro
Crestæ: quare ad hanc conjecturam lubens accedo.
- f, Κρῆσσα, of Crete, Cretan, V.—As subst, a Cretan woman. O., Iu.—Of pipeclay: nota, made with chalk, i. e. of a lucky day, H.
CRESSA (Κρῆσσα: Eth. Κρησσαῖος).
1.According to Stephanus (s. v.) a city of Paphlagonia, founded by Meriones after the war of Troy. Zeilas, the son of Nicomedes, took it. Cramer (Asia Minor, vol. 1. p. 241), says, that it was probably on the sea coast, and perhaps should be identified with Carussa.B ut there is no foundation for this guess. [CARUSA]
2.There is a Cressa on the coast of Caria, which Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.27) calls Cressa Portus, and places 20 M.P. from Rhodus. It is also mentioned by Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.2). Leake (Asia Minor, p. 222) says that the excellent harbour of Cressa is now called Aplothíka by the Greeks, and Porto Cavaliere by the Italians; and on its western shore are the ruins of an Hellenic fortress and town, which are undoubtedly those of Loryma.[ G.L]
CRESSA [CRISSA]
“The Cretan woman”; a term used by Ovid of Ariadné (Am. i. 7, 16) and of Aeropé (A. A. i. 327).