Cyrus, A noble king of Persia, the son of Cambyses and Mãdanes, the daughter of Astyages, king of Medea. This man excelled all men of his time in goodly personage, gentlenes, prowesse, liberalitie, wisedome and memorie. Solinns writeth, that of the exceeding multitude of men which were in hys host he so retayned the names, that he called euery man by his proper name, when he spake vnto them. The resldue of his wonderfull vertues be written by X enophon most loquently in Greeke. At the last being insatiable in coneting countreys, he was slayne by Tomyris. Dueene of Scfthia. with 200000. Persians: Of him read Iustioc lib. 1. He rodor. lib 1. and Solin. Valer. Maxim. lib. 8. cap. 7.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Crus, i, m., = *ku=ros. I.The founder of the Persian monarchy, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 56; id. Brut. 29, 112; id. Div. 1, 23, 46; Hor. C. 2, 2, 17; 3, 29, 27; called Cyrus Major, Lact. 4, 5, 7.—II. Cyrus Minor, a brother of Artaxerxes Mnemon, killed in the battle at Cunaxa, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 52; id. Sen. 17, 59; Nep. Alcib. 9, 5.—III.An architect of the time of Cicero, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 2; id. Att. 2, 3, 2; id. Mil. 17, 46.—Hence, B. Crēa, ōrum, n., the structures raised by him, Cic. Att. 4, 10, 2.—IV.The name of a youth, Hor. C. 1. 33, 6; 1, 17, 25.—V.A river of Albania, Plin. 6, 9, 10, 26 sq.; Mel. 3, 5, 6.