li. 272.
=Chares=, an Athenian general.――――A statuary of Lindus, who was 12
years employed in making the famous Colossus of Rhodes. _Pliny_,
bk. 34, ch. 7.――――A man who wounded Cyrus when fighting against his
brother Artaxerxes.――――An historian of Mitylene, who wrote a life of
Alexander.――――An Athenian who fought with Darius against Alexander.
_Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 5.――――A river of Peloponnesus. _Plutarch_,
_Aratus_.
=Charĭcles=, one of the 30 tyrants set over Athens by the Lacedæmonians.
_Xenophon_, _Memorabilia_, bk. 1.――_Aristotle_, _Politics_, bk. 5,
ch. 6.――――A famous physician under Tiberius. _Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 6, ch. 50.
=Chariclīdes=, an officer of Dionysius the younger, whom Dion gained
to dethrone the tyrant. _Diodorus_, bk. 16.
=Charĭclo=, the mother of Tiresias, greatly favoured by Minerva.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 6.――――A daughter of Apollo, who married
the centaur Chiron. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 635.
=Charidēmus=, a Roman exposed to wild beasts. _Martial_, bk. 1, ltr.
44.――――An Athenian banished by Alexander, and killed by Darius, &c.
=Charĭla=, a festival observed once in nine years by the Delphians. It
owes its origin to this circumstance: In a great famine the people
of Delphi assembled and applied to their king to relieve their wants.
He accordingly distributed the little corn which he had among the
noblest; but as a poor little girl, called Charila, begged the king
with more than common earnestness, he beat her with his shoe, and
the girl, unable to bear his treatment, hanged herself in her girdle.
The famine increased; and the oracle told the king that, to relieve
his people, he must atone for the murder of Charila. Upon this a
festival was instituted, with expiatory rites. The king presided
over this institution, and distributed pulse and corn to such as
attended. Charila’s image was brought before the king, who struck it
with his shoe; after which it was carried to a desolate place, where
they put a halter round its neck, and buried it where Charila was
buried. _Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Græcæ_.
=Charilāus= and =Charillus=, a son of Polydectes king of Sparta,
educated and protected by his uncle Lycurgus. He made war against
Argos, and attacked Tegea. He was taken prisoner, and released on
promising that he would cease from war, an engagement which he soon
broke. He died in the 64th year of his age. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch.
36; bk. 6, ch. 48.――――A Spartan who changed the monarchical power
into an aristocracy. _Aristotle_, _Politics_, bk. 5, ch. 12.
=Charillus=, one of the ancestors of Leutychides. _Herodotus_, bk. 8,
ch. 131.
=Charīni= and =Carīni=, a people of Germany. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 14.
=Charis=, a goddess among the Greeks, surrounded with pleasures,
graces, and delight. She was the wife of Vulcan. _Homer_, _Iliad_,
bk. 18, li. 382.
=Charisia=, a town of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 3.――――A festival
in honour of the Graces, with dances which continued all night. He
who continued awake the longest was rewarded with a cake.
=Charisius=, an orator at Athens. _Cicero_, _Brutus_, ch. 83.
=Charistia=, festivals at Rome celebrated on the 20th of February,
by the distribution of mutual presents, with the intention of
reconciling friends and relations. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 2.
=Charĭtes= and =Gratiæ=, the Graces, daughters of Venus by Jupiter or
Bacchus, are three in number――Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne. They
were the constant attendants of Venus, and they were represented as
three young, beautiful, and modest virgins, all holding one another
by the hand. They presided over kindness, and all good offices,
and their worship was the same as that of the nine muses, with whom
they had a temple in common. They were generally represented naked,
because kindness ought to be done with sincerity and candour. The
moderns explain the allegory of their holding their hands joined,
by observing that there ought to be a perpetual and never-ceasing
intercourse of kindness and benevolence among friends. Their youth
denotes the constant remembrance that we ought ever to have of
kindnesses received; and their virgin purity and innocence teach us
that acts of benevolence ought to be done without any expectation of
restoration, and that we ought never to suffer others or ourselves
to be guilty of base or impure favours. Homer speaks only of two
Graces.
=Charĭton=, a writer of Aphrodisium, at the latter end of the fourth
century. He composed a Greek romance called _The Loves of Chæreas
and Callirhoe_, which has been much admired for its elegance, and
the originality of the characters it describes. There is a very
learned edition of Chariton, by Reiske, with D’Orville’s notes,
2 vols., 4to, Amsterdam, 1750.
=Charmădas=, a philosopher of uncommon memory. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 24.
=Charme= and =Carme=, the mother of Britomartis by Jupiter.
=Charmides=, a Lacedæmonian, sent by the king to quell a sedition in
Crete. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2.――――A boxer. _Pausanias_, bk. 6,
ch. 7.――――A philosopher of the third academy, B.C. 95.
=Charmīnus=, an Athenian general, who defeated the Peloponnesians.
_Thucydides_, bk. 8, ch. 42.
=Charmione=, a servant-maid of Cleopatra, who stabbed herself after
the example of her mistress. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_.
=Charmis=, a physician of Marseilles, in Nero’s age, who used cold
baths for his patients, and prescribed medicines contrary to those
of his cotemporaries. _Pliny_, bk. 21, ch. 1.
=Charmosy̆na=, a festival in Egypt. _Plutarch_, _de Iside et Osiride_.
=Charmotas=, a part of Arabia.
=Charmus=, a poet of Syracuse, some of whose fragments are found
scattered in Athenæus.
=Charon=, a Theban, who received into his house Pelopidas and his
friends, when they delivered Thebes from tyranny, &c. _Plutarch_,
_Pelopidas_.――――An historian of Lampsacus, son of Pytheus, who
wrote two books on Persia, besides other treatises, B.C. 479.――――An
historian of Naucratis, who wrote a history of his country and of
Egypt.――――A Carthaginian writer, &c.――――A god of hell, son of Erebus
and Nox, who conducted the souls of the dead in a boat over the
rivers Styx and Acheron to the infernal regions, for an obolus. Such
as had not been honoured with a funeral were not permitted to enter
his boat, without previously wandering on the shore for 100 years.
If any living person presented himself to cross the Stygian lake, he
could not be admitted before he showed Charon a golden bough, which
he had received from the Sibyl, and Charon was imprisoned for one
year, because he had ferried over, against his own will, Hercules,
without this passport. Charon is represented as an old robust man,
with a hideous countenance, long white beard, and piercing eyes.
His garment is ragged and filthy, and his forehead is covered with
wrinkles. As all the dead were obliged to pay a small piece of money
for their admission, it was always usual, among the ancients, to
place under the tongue of the deceased a piece of money for Charon.
This fable of Charon and his boat is borrowed from the Egyptians,
whose dead were carried across a lake, where sentence was passed on
them, and according to their good or bad actions, they were honoured
with a splendid burial, or left unnoticed in the open air. _See:_
Acherusia. _Diodorus_, bk. 1.――_Seneca_, _Hercules Furens_, li. 765.
――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 298, &c.
=Charondas=, a man of Catana, who gave laws to the people of Thurium,
and made a law that no man should be permitted to come armed into
the assembly. He inadvertently broke this law, and when told of it
he fell upon his sword, B.C. 446. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 6, li. 5.
=Charonea=, a place of Asia, &c.
=Charonia scrobs=, a place of Italy emitting deadly vapours. _Pliny_,
bk. 2, ch. 23.
=Charonium=, a cave near Nysa, where the sick were supposed to be
delivered from their disorders by certain superstitious solemnities.
=Charops= and =Charŏpes=, a Trojan killed by Ulysses. _Homer_, _Iliad_.
――――A powerful Epirot who assisted Flaminius when making war against
Philip the king of Macedonia. _Plutarch_, _Titus Flamininus_.――――The
first decennial archon at Athens. _Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.
=Charybdis=, a dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily, opposite
another whirlpool called Scylla, on the coast of Italy. It was very
dangerous to sailors, and it proved fatal to part of the fleet of
Ulysses. The exact situation of the Charybdis is not discovered by
the moderns, as no whirlpool sufficiently tremendous is now found to
correspond with the descriptions of the ancients. The words,
_Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim_,
became a proverb, to show that in our eagerness to avoid one evil,
we often fall into a greater. The name of _Charybdis_ was properly
bestowed on mistresses who repay affection and tenderness with
ingratitude. It is supposed that Charybdis was an avaricious woman,
who stole the oxen of Hercules, for which theft she was struck
with thunder by Jupiter, and changed into a whirlpool. _Lycophron_,
_Cassandra_.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 12.――_Propertius_, bk. 3, poem
11.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 14.――_Ovid_, _Ex Ponto_, bk. 4, ltr. 10;
_Amores_, bk. 2, poem 16.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 420.
=Chaubi= and =Chauci=, people of Germany, supposed to inhabit the
country now called Friesland and Bremen.
=Chaula=, a village of Egypt.
=Chauros.= _See:_ Caurus.
=Chelæ=, a Greek word (χηλη), signifying _claws_, which is applied to
the Scorpion, one of the signs of the zodiac, and lies, according
to the ancients, contiguous to Virgo. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1,
li. 33.
=Cheles=, a satrap of Seleucus, &c.
=Chelĭdon=, a mistress of Verres. _Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 1,
ch. 40.
=Chelīdŏnia=, a festival at Rhodes, in which it was customary for
boys to go begging from door to door and singing certain songs, &c.
_Athenæus._――――The wind Favonius was called also _Chelidonia_, from
the 6th of the ides of February to the 7th of the calends of March,
the time when swallows first made their appearance. _Pliny_, bk. 2,
ch. 47.
=Chelīdoniæ=, now _Kelidoni_, small islands opposite the promontory
of Taurus of the same name, very dangerous to sailors. _Dionysius
Periegetes_, li. 506.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, chs. 27 & 31.――_Livy_, bk. 33,
ch. 41.
=Chelĭdŏnis=, a daughter of king Leotychides, who married Cleonymus,
and committed adultery with Acrotatus. _Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.
=Chelidŏnium=, a promontory of mount Taurus, projecting into the
Pamphylian sea.
=Chelŏne=, a nymph changed into a tortoise by Mercury, for not being
present at the nuptials of Jupiter and Juno, and condemned to
perpetual silence for having ridiculed these deities.
=Chelōnis=, a daughter of Leonidas king of Sparta, who married
Cleombrotus. She accompanied her father, whom her husband had
expelled, and soon after went into banishment with her husband,
who had in his turn been expelled by Leonidas. _Plutarch_, _Agis_
& _Cleomenes_.
=Chelonophăgi=, a people of Carmania, who fed upon turtle, and covered
their habitations with the shells. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 24.
=Chelydoria=, a mountain of Arcadia.
=Chemmis=, an island in a deep lake of Egypt. _Herodotus_, bk. 2,
ch. 156.
=Chena=, a town of Laconia.
=Chenæ=, a village on mount Œta. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 24.
=Chenion=, a mountain in Asia Minor, from which the 10,000 Greeks
first saw the sea. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.
=Chenius=, a mountain near Colchis.
=Cheops= and =Cheospes=, a king of Egypt, after Rhampsinitus, who
built famous pyramids, upon which 1060 talents were expended only
in supplying the workmen with leeks, parsley, garlic, and other
vegetables. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 124.
=Chephren=, a brother of Cheops, who also built a pyramid. The
Egyptians so inveterately hated these two royal brothers, that they
publicly reported, that the pyramids which they had built had been
erected by a shepherd. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 127.
=Cheremocrătes=, an artist who built Diana’s temple at Ephesus, &c.
_Strabo_, bk. 14.
=Cherisŏphus=, a commander of 800 Spartans, in the expedition which
Cyrus undertook against his brother Artaxerxes. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.
=Cheronæa.= _See:_Chæronea.
=Cherŏphon=, a tragic writer of Athens, in the age of Philip.
_Philostratus_, _Lives_.
=Cherronēsus.= _See:_ Chersonesus.
=Chersias=, an Orchomenian, reconciled to Periander by Chilo.
_Pausanias_ praises some of his poetry, bk. 9, ch. 38.
=Chersidămas=, a Trojan killed by Ulysses in the Trojan war. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 259.
=Chersiphro=, an architect, &c. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 14.
=Chersonēsus=, a Greek word, rendered by the Latins _Peninsula_. There
were many of these among the ancients, of which these five were the
most celebrated: one called _Peloponnesus_; one called _Thracian_,
in the south of Thrace and west of the Hellespont, where Miltiades
led a colony of Athenians, and built a wall across the isthmus. From
its isthmus to its further shores, it measured 420 stadia, extending
between the bay of Melas and the Hellespont. The third, called
_Taurica_, now _Crim Tartary_, was situate near the Palus Mæotis.
The fourth, called _Cimbrica_, now _Jutland_, is in the northern
parts of Germany; and the fifth, surnamed _Aurea_, lies in India,
beyond the Ganges. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 33; bk. 7, ch. 58.――_Livy_,
bk. 31, ch. 16.――_Cicero_, _Brutus_, ch. 2.――――Also a peninsula near
Alexandria in Egypt. _Hirtius_, _Alexandrine War_, ch. 10.
=Cherusci=, a people of Germany, who long maintained a war against
Rome. They inhabited the country between the Weser and the Elbe.
_Tacitus_.――_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6, ch. 9.
=Chidnæi=, a people near Pontus.
=Chidōrus=, a river of Macedonia near Thessalonica, not sufficiently
large to supply the army of Xerxes with water. _Herodotus_, bk. 7,
ch. 127.
=Chiliarchus=, a great officer of state at the court of Persia.
_Cornelius Nepos_, _Conon_.
=Chilius= and =Chileus=, an Arcadian, who advised the Lacedæmonians,
when Xerxes was in Greece, not to desert the common cause of their
country. _Herodotus_, bk. 9, ch. 9.
=Chilo=, a Spartan philosopher who has been called one of the seven
wise men of Greece. One of his maxims was “Know thyself.” He died
through excess of joy, in the arms of his son, who had obtained a
victory at Olympia, B.C. 597. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 33.――_Diogenes
Laërtius._――――One of the Ephori at Sparta, B.C. 556.
=Chilonis=, the wife of Theopompus king of Sparta. _Polyænus_, bk. 8.
=Chimæra=, a celebrated monster, sprung from Echidna and Typhon,
which had three heads, that of a lion, of a goat, and a dragon,
and continually vomited flames. The fore parts of its body were
those of a lion, the middle was that of a goat, and the hinder
parts were those of a dragon. It generally lived in Lycia, about
the reign of Jobates, by whose orders Bellerophon, mounted on the
horse Pegasus, overcame it. This fabulous tradition is explained
by the recollection that there was a burning mountain in Lycia,
called Chimæra, whose top was the resort of lions, on account
of its desolate wilderness; the middle, which was fruitful, was
covered with goats; and at the bottom the marshy ground abounded
with serpents. Bellerophon is said to have conquered the Chimæra,
because he first made his habitation on that mountain. Plutarch
says that it was the captain of some pirates, who adorned their ship
with the images of a lion, a goat, and a dragon. From the union of
the Chimæra with Orthos sprung the Sphinx and the lion of Nemæa.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 6, li. 181.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 322.
――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Lucretius_, bk. 5, li.
903.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 646.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 6, li. 288.――――One of the ships in the fleet of Æneas. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 118.
=Chimarus=, a river of Argolis. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 36.
=Chimerium=, a mountain of Phthiotis, in Thessaly. _Pliny_, bk. 4,
ch. 8.
=Chiomara=, a woman who cut off the head of a Roman tribune when she
had been taken prisoner, &c. _Plutarch_, _de Mulierum Virtutes_.
=Chion=, a Greek writer, whose epistles were edited cum notis Cobergi,
8vo, Lipscomb, 1765.
=Chiŏne=, a daughter of Dædalion, of whom Apollo and Mercury became
enamoured. To enjoy her company, Mercury lulled her to sleep with
his Caduceus, and Apollo, in the night, under the form of an old
woman, obtained the same favours as Mercury. From this embrace
Chione became mother of Philammon and Autolycus, the former of whom,
as being son of Apollo, became an excellent musician; and the latter
was equally notorious for his robberies, of which his father Mercury
was the patron. Chione grew so proud of her commerce with the gods,
that she even preferred her beauty to that of Diana, for which
impiety she was killed by the goddess, and changed into a hawk.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, fable 8.――――A daughter of Boreas
and Orithyia, who had Eumolpus by Neptune. She threw her son into
the sea, but he was preserved by his father. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3,
ch. 15.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 38.――――A famous prostitute.
_Martial_, bk. 3, ltr. 34.
=Chionides=, an Athenian poet, supposed by some to be the inventor of
comedy.
=Chionis=, a victor at Olympia. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 13.
=Chios=, now _Scio_, an island in the Ægean sea, between Lesbos and
Samos, on the coast of Asia Minor, which receives its name, as some
suppose, from Chione, or from χιων, _snow_, which was very frequent
there. It was well inhabited, and could once equip 100 ships; and
its chief town, called Chios, had a beautiful harbour, which could
contain 80 ships. The wine of this island, so much celebrated by
the ancients, is still in general esteem. Chios was anciently called
Æthalia, Macris, and Pityasa. There was no adultery committed there
for the space of 700 years. _Plutarch_, _de Mulierum Virtutes_.
――_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 19, li. 5; bk. 1, satire 10, li. 24.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 4.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.――_Strabo_, bk. 2.
=Chiron=, a centaur, half a man and half a horse, son of Philyra
and Saturn, who had changed himself into a horse, to escape the
inquiries of his wife Rhea. Chiron was famous for his knowledge of
music, medicine, and shooting. He taught mankind the use of plants
and medicinal herbs: and he instructed in all the polite arts the
greatest heroes of his age; such as Achilles, Æsculapius, Hercules,
Jason, Peleus, Æneas, &c. He was wounded on the knee by a poisoned
arrow, by Hercules, in his pursuit of the centaurs. Hercules flew
to his assistance; but as the wound was incurable, and the cause of
the most excruciating pains, Chiron begged Jupiter to deprive him
of immortality. His prayers were heard, and he was placed by the god
among the constellations, under the name of Sagittarius. _Hesiod_,
_Shield of Heracles_.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 11.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3,
ch. 18; bk. 5, ch. 19; bk. 9, ch. 31.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk.
2, li. 676.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5; bk. 3, ch. 13.――_Horace_,
epode 13.
=Chloe=, a surname of Ceres at Athens. Her yearly festivals, called
Chloeia, were celebrated with much mirth and rejoicing, and a ram
was always sacrificed to her. The name of Chloe is supposed to bear
the same signification as _Flava_, so often applied to the goddess
of corn. The name, from its signification (χλοη, _herba virens_),
has generally been applied to women possessed of beauty and of
simplicity.
=Chloreus=, a priest of Cybele, who came with Æneas into Italy, and was
killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 768.――――Another, &c.
=Chloris=, the goddess of flowers, who married Zephyrus. She is the
same as Flora. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 5.――――A daughter of Amphion,
son of Jasus and Persephone, who married Neleus king of Pylos, by
whom she had one daughter and 12 sons, who all, except Nestor, were
killed by Hercules. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11, li. 280.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 2, ch. 21; bk. 9, ch. 36.――――A prostitute, &c. _Horace_, bk. 3,
ode 15.
=Chlorus=, a river of Cilicia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27.――――Constantine,
one of the Cæsars, in Diocletian’s age, who reigned two years after
the emperor’s abdication, and died July 25, A.D. 306.
=Choarīna=, a country near India, reduced by Craterus, &c.
=Choaspes=, a son of Phasis, &c. _Flaccus_, bk. 5, li. 585.――――An
Indian river. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 2.――――A river of Media, flowing
into the Tigris, and now called _Karun_. Its waters are so sweet,
that the kings of Persia drank no other, and in their expeditions
they always had some with them which had been previously boiled.
_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 188.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 12, ch.
40.――_Tibullus_, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 141.――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 27.
=Chobus=, a river of Colchis. _Arrian._
=Chœrades= and =Pharos=, two islands opposite Alexandria in Egypt.
_Thucydides_, bk. 7, ch. 33.―――― Others in the Euxine sea.――――An
island in the Ionian sea, or near the Hellespont. _Theocritus_,
_Idylls_, poem 13.
=Chœrĭlus=, a tragic poet of Athens, who wrote 150 tragedies, of which
13 obtained the prize.――――An historian of Samos.――――Two other poets,
one of whom was very intimate with Herodotus. He wrote a poem on the
victory which the Athenians had obtained over Xerxes, and on account
of the excellence of the composition, he received a piece of gold
for each verse from the Athenians, and was publicly ranked with
Homer as a poet. The other was one of Alexander’s flatterers and
friends. It is said the prince promised him as many pieces of gold
as there should be good verses in his poetry, and as many slaps on
his forehead as there were bad; and in consequence of this, scarce
six of his verses in each poem were entitled to gold, while the rest
were rewarded with castigation. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――_Horace_,
bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 232.
=Chœreæ=, a place of Bœotia.
=Chonnidas=, a man made preceptor to Theseus, by his grandfather
Pittheus king of Trœzene. The Athenians instituted sacrifices to
him for the good precepts which he had inculcated into his pupil.
_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.
=Chonūphis=, an Egyptian prophet. _Plutarch_, _de Genio Socratis_.
=Chorasmi=, a people of Asia near the Oxus. _Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 93.
=Chorineus=, a man killed in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 9, li. 571.――――Another. _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 298.――――A priest
with Æneas. _Æneid._
=Chorœbus=, a man of Elis, who obtained a prize the first olympiad.
_See:_ Corœbus.――――A youth of Mygdonia, who was enamoured of
Cassandra. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 341.
=Choromnæi=, a people subdued by Ninus. _Diodorus_, bk. 1.
=Chosroes=, a king of Persia, in Justinian’s reign.
=Chremes=, a sordid old man, mentioned in Terence’s Andria. _Horace_,
_Art of Poetry_, li. 94.
=Chremĕtes=, a river of Libya.
=Chresiphon=, an architect of Diana’s temple in Ephesus. _Pliny_,
bk. 36, ch. 14.
=Chresphontes=, a son of Aristomachus. _See:_ Aristodemus.
=Chrestus=, an approved writer of Athens, &c. _Columella_, bk. 1, _de
Res Rustica_, ch. 1.
=Chromia=, a daughter of Itonus. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 1.
=Chromios=, a son of Neleus and Chloris, who, with 10 brothers,
was killed in a battle by Hercules.――――A son of Priam, killed by
Diomedes. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.
=Chromis=, a captain in the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――――A
young shepherd. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 6.――――A Phrygian killed
by Camilla. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 675.――――A son of Hercules.
_Statius_, bk. 6, li. 346.
=Chromius=, a son of Pterilaus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――――An
Argive, who, alone with Alcenor, survived a battle between 300 of
his countrymen and 300 Spartans. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 82.
=Chronius=, a man who built a temple of Diana at Orchomenos.
_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 48.
=Chronos=, the Greek name of Saturn, or time, in whose honour festivals
called _Chronia_ were yearly celebrated by the Rhodians, and some of
the Greeks.
=Chryasus=, a king of Argos, descended from Inachus.