---
title: Fragments on Cumae
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Κύμης
author: Hyperochus of Cumae
eul_wid: mmq-aa
eul_aid: mmq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/hyperochus-cumae-fragments-mmq-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine (frg)
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Cumae

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Κύμης*

**Author:** Hyperochus of Cumae

**eul_wid:** `mmq-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/hyperochus-cumae-fragments-mmq-aa)

## Text

## ΚΥΜΑΪΚΑ.

### 1

Athenaeus XII: Καὶ Κυμαῖοι δὲ οἱ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ, ὥς φησιν Ὑπέροχος ἢ ὁ ποιήσας τὰ εἰς αὐτὸν ἀναφερόμενα Κυμαϊκὰ, διετέλεσαν χρυσοφοροῦντες καὶ ἀνθιναῖς ἐσθῆσι χρώμενοι, καὶ μετὰ γυ ναικῶν εἰς τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἐξιόντες, ἐπὶ ζευγῶν ὀχούμενοι.

### 2

Pausanias X, 12, 4: Τὴν δὲ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ χρησμοὺς κατὰ ταὐτὰ εἰποῦσαν ἐκ Κύμης τῆς ἐν Ὀπικοῖς εἶναι, καλεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὴν Δημὼ, συνέγραψεν Ὑπέροχος ἀνὴρ Κυμαῖος. Χρησμὸν δὲ οἱ Κυμαῖοι τῆς γυναικὸς ταύτης ἐς οὐδένα εἶχον ἐπιδείξασθαι, λίθου δὲ ὑδρίαν ἐν Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερῷ δεικνύουσιν οὐ μεγάλην, τῆς Σιβύλλης ἐνταῦθα κεῖσθαι φάμενοι τὰ ὀστᾶ.

### 3

Festus: Historiae Cumanae compositor, Athenis quosdam profectos Sicyonem Thespiadasque, ex quibus porro civitatibus, ob inopiam domiciliorum, compluris profectos in exteras regiones, delatos in Italiam, eosque multo errore nominatos Aborigines, quorum subjecti qui fuerint Caeximparum viri, unicarumque virium imperio montem Palatium, in quo frequentissimi consederint, appellavisse a viri bus regentis Valentiam: quod nomen adventu Euandri Aeneaeque in Italiam cum magna Graece lo quentium copia interpretatum, dici coeptum Rhomen.

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