Cilicia, A country in Asia, partly inclosen with the highest part of the mountaine Taurus, and hardest to passe by. Strabo deuideth Cilicia into two parts, one called Tracher, % is to say, rough & rockie: the other Campestris, % is to say, plain. Iosephus writeth, that it was of olde time called Tarsus of Tarsis one of the sonnes of Iaphet, the yongest sonne of Doe. Herodotus saith the people were called Cilices of Cilix, the sonne of Aegenor king of Phœnitia, where before it was called Hyppareus. Saint Ierome interpreteth Cilicia. a congregation, a lamentation, an assumption, a lamentable calling or vomit. The people were by nature inclined to lying and stealing, whereof grew this prouerbe.*Cilix non facile verum dicit, The Cilician not lightly sayeth trueth. A prouerbe applyed to a couetous man, which alway lyeth for his particuler aduauntage, as nowe a dayes moste men do which liue only by selling.
Cilicium, cilicij. Varro. A cloth or garment made of haire: also the wearing of the same cloth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cĭlĭcĭa, ae, f., = *kiliki/a, a province in the southern part of Asia Minor, between Pamphylia and Syria, now Ejalet Itschil, Mel. 1, 2, 6; 1, 11, 2; 1, 13, 1 sq.; 2, 7, 5; Plin. 5, 27, 22, 91; Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 42; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64; id. Fam. 15, 1, 2 sq. al.— II. Hence, A. Cĭlix, ĭcis (abl. Cilici, Lucr. 2, 416 Lachm.; Verg. Cul. 399 al.; v. infra), adj., = *ki/lic, Cilician: Cilici croco (of special excellence), Lucr. 2, 416; Verg. Cul. 399 Sillig; cf. Stat. S. 2, 1, 160; 3, 3, 34: Taurus, Ov. M. 2, 217: tonsor, Mart. 7, 95: Tamira, Tac. H. 2, 3.—Subst. in plur.: Cĭlĭ-ces, um, m., = *ki/likes, the Cilicians, the inhabitants of Cilicia, notorious for the practice of piracy, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2; id. Fam. 15, 1, 3; Caes. B. C. 3, 101; Tib. 1, 2, 67; Tac. A. 2, 78 al.: agrestium Cilicum nationes quibus Clitarum cognomentum, id. ib. 12, 55.—Acc. Gr. Cilicas, Tib. 1, 7, 16; Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 12; Ov. Am. 2, 16, 39: Cilices Clitae,
a barbarous tribe in the mountains of Cilicia
, Tac. A. 12, 55; cf. id. ib. 6, 41.—Hence, (b).Fem.: Cĭlissa, ae, = *ki/lissa, Cilician (cf. Phoenissa, from Phoenix), adj.: terra Cilissa, Ov. Ib. 198: spica,
of crocus
, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 74; Ov. F. 1, 76.— B. Cĭlĭcĭus, a, um, adj., Cilician: portae, Nep. Dat. 7, 2: mare, Plin. 5, 27, 26, 96: cotes, id. 36, 22, 47, 164 and 165: crocum, id. 21, 6, 17, 31.—(b).Subst.: cĭ-lĭcĭum, ii, n., = *kili/kion, a covering, originally made of Cilician goats' hair, used by soldiers and seamen, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 12; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, 95 Ascon.; Col. 12, 46; Liv. 38, 7, 10; Veg. 2, 14, 3; also adj.: vela, Dig. 19, 1, 17; 33, 7, 12; cf. also udones, made of Cilician goats' hair, Mart. 14, 148.—C. Cĭlĭcĭensis, e, adj., Cilician: legio, Caes. B. C. 3, 88: provincia, Cic. Fam. 13, 67, 1: vicinus, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, 7.