Cypsela

• a town in Thrace, on the Hebrus, now Ipsala, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 43; Liv. 31, 16; 38, 40.—Also Cypsĕla, ae, f., Mel. 2, 2, 6.

CY´PSELA (Κύψελα), a town on the river Hebrus in Thrace, which was once an important place on the via Egnatia. It is the same as the modern Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan. (Strab. pp. 322, 329; Ptol. 3.11.13; Steph. Byz. s. v.; Ann. Comn. 7. p. 204; Liv. 31.16, 38.40, 41; Mela, 2.2; Plin. Nat. 4.18.)

CY´PSELA (Κύψελα: Eth. Κυψελῖνος), a fortress in the district of Parrhasia in Arcadia, which was occupied and fortified by the Mantineians in the Peloponnesian war, in order to annoy the Lacedaemonian district Sciritis. (Thuc. 5.33.) Kiepert, in his map, identifies Cypsela with Basilis, since the latter is said to have been founded by Cypselus: the only objection to this conjecture is the distance of Cypsela from the district Sciritis. [BASILIS]

(τὰ Κύψελα). (1) A town in Arcadia on the frontiers of Laconia.

(2) A town in Thrace on the Hebrus and the Egnatia Via.