kupsele

Updated: May 21, 2025

All efforts were unsuccessful, however, because his homely mother hid him in a chest when the spies came to the house. Now the Greek word for chest is kupsele, and therefore this boy was called Cypselus. He opposed the aristocratic rulers, and at last succeeded in overturning their government and getting into the position of supreme ruler himself.

Arthur Gilman - The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic