Cyprus
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Island in the eastern Mediterranean. Referenced as the location of copper furnaces where pyraustae (fireflies) are born and walk through fire, but die upon flying away from the flame.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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On the Work of the Sixth Day
— Pyraustae are born in the copper furnaces of Cyprus
"for they are born in the copper furnaces of Cyprus, and in them leap and walk through fire, but soon die upon flying away from the flame"