Cyno

Cyno

(Κυνώ). The wife of a herdsman, and the one who nurtured and brought up Cyrus the Great, when exposed in infancy (Herod.i. 110). Her name in the Median language was Spaco, according to Herodotus, who makes Cyno the Greek translation of it, from κύων, “a dog,” and adds that it signified in the Median tongue a female dog.

Cyno Cyno, Cyrus' Median foster-mother

• Hdt. 1.110, Hdt. 1.122