Cherronēsus (-os), or Chersonē-sus, i, f., = Χερρόνησος or Χερσόνησος (a peninsula; hence), Cherronesus Thracia, or absol. Cherronesus, the Thracian peninsula at the west of the Hellespont, the Chersonese, Mel. 2, 2, 7; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 48; Cic. Agr. 2, 19, 5; id. Pis. 35, 86 B. and K.; Nep. Milt. 1, 1 sq.; Liv. 31, 16, 5.

—Hence, Cherronenses or Cherso-nenses (contr. instead of Cherronesenses), the inhabitants of the Chersonese, Just. 9, 1, 7.

— Cherronesus Taurica, or absol. Cherronesus, the Crimea, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 19; Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85; 19, 5, 30, § 95.

— Cherronesus Heracleotarum, or Heraclea, a town on the western side of the Crimea, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 78; 4, 12, 26, § 85.

— A promontory in Argolis, not far from Traezene, now Chersonisi, Mel. 2, 3, 8.

— Cherronesus Rhodiorum, a small promontory of Caria opposite Rhodes, on which the town of Cnidus stands, Plin. 31, 2, 20, § 30.

— A small town on the Egyptian coast, Auct. B. Alex. 10.