695, to reduce Cyprus into a Roman province, and expose Ptolemy
king of Egypt to sale in his regal ornaments. It empowered Cato
to go with the pretorian power and see the auction of the king’s
goods, and commissioned him to return the money to Rome.――――Another,
_de Magistratibus_, A.U.C. 695, by Clodius the tribune. It forbade
the censors to put a stigma or mark of infamy upon any person who
had not been actually accused and condemned by both the censors.
――――Another, _de Religione_, by the same, A.U.C. 696, to deprive the
priest of Cybele, a native of Pessinus, of his office, and confer
the priesthood upon Brotigonus, a Gallogrecian.――――Another, _de
Provinciis_, A.U.C. 696, which nominated the provinces of Syria,
Babylon, and Persia, to the consul Gabinius; and Achaia, Thessaly,
Macedon, and Greece, to his colleague Piso, with proconsular power.
It empowered them to defray the expenses of their march from the
public treasury.――――Another, A.U.C. 695, which required the same
distribution of corn among the people _gratis_, as had been given
them before at six _asses_ and a _triens_ the bushel.――――Another,
A.U.C. 695 by the same, _de Judiciis_. It called to an account such
as had executed a Roman citizen without a judgment of the people,
and all the formalities of a trial.――――Another, by the same, to pay
no attention to the appearances of the heavens, while any affair
was before the people.――――Another, to make the power of the tribunes
free, in making and proposing laws.――――Another, to re-establish the
companies of artists, which had been instituted by Numa, but since
his time abolished.
=Clodii forum=, a town of Italy. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 15.
=Publius Clōdius=, a Roman descended from an illustrious family,
and remarkable for his licentiousness, avarice, and ambition. He
committed incest with his three sisters, and introduced himself
in women’s clothes into the house of Julius Cæsar, whilst Pompeia,
Cæsar’s wife, of whom he was enamoured, was celebrating the mysteries
of Ceres, where no man was permitted to appear. He was accused for
this violation of human and divine laws; but he corrupted his judges,
and by that means screened himself from justice. He descended from
a patrician into a plebeian family to become a tribune. He was such
an enemy to Cato, that he made him go with pretorian power in an
expedition against Ptolemy king of Cyprus, that, by the difficulty
of the campaign, he might ruin his reputation, and destroy his
interest at Rome during his absence. Cato, however, by his uncommon
success, frustrated the views of Clodius. He was also an inveterate
enemy to Cicero; and by his influence he banished him from Rome,
partly on pretence that he had punished with death, and without
trial, the adherents of Catiline. He wreaked his vengeance upon
Cicero’s house, which he burnt, and set all his goods to sale; which,
however, to his great mortification, no one offered to buy. In spite
of Clodius, Cicero was recalled, and all his goods restored to him.
Clodius was some time after murdered by Milo, whose defence Cicero
took upon himself. _Plutarch_, _Cicero_.――_Appian_ _on Cicero_,
bk. 2.――_Cicero_, _for Milo_ & _On his House_.――_Dio Cassius._――――A
certain author, quoted by _Plutarch_.――――Licinius, wrote a history
of Rome. _Livy_, bk. 29, ch. 22.――――Quirinalis, a rhetorician in
Nero’s age. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――――Sextus, a
rhetorician of Sicily, intimate with Marcus Antony, whose preceptor
he was. _Suetonius_, _Lives of the Rhetoricians_.――_Cicero_,
_Philippics_.
=Clœlia=, a Roman virgin, given, with other maidens, as hostages to
Porsonna king of Etruria. She escaped from her confinement, and swam
across the Tiber to Rome. Her unprecedented virtue was rewarded by
her countrymen with an equestrian statue in the Via Sacra. _Livy_,
bk. 2, ch. 13.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 651.――_Dionysius of
Halicarnassus_, bk. 5.――_Juvenal_, satire 8, li. 265.――――A patrician
family descended from Clœlius, one of the companions of Æneas.
_Dionysius of Halicarnassus._
=Clœliæ fossæ=, a place near Rome. _Plutarch_, _Coriolanus_.
=Clœlius Gracchus=, a general of the Volsci and Sabines against Rome,
conquered by Quinctius Cincinnatus the dictator.――――Tullus, a Roman
ambassador, put to death by Tolumnius king of the Veientes.
=Clonas=, a musician. _Plutarch_, _de Musica_.
=Clonia=, the mother of Nycteus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.
=Clonius=, a Bœotian, who went with 50 ships to the Trojan war.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――――A Trojan killed by Messapus in Italy.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 749.――――Another, killed by Turnus.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 574.
=Clotho=, the youngest of the three Parcæ, daughter of Jupiter and
Themis, or, according to Hesiod, of Night, was supposed to preside
over the moment that we are born. She held the distaff in her hand,
and spun the thread of life, whence her name (κλωθειν, _to spin_).
She was represented wearing a crown with seven stars, and covered
with a variegated robe. _See:_ Parcæ. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 218.
――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 3.
=Cluacīna=, a name of Venus, whose statue was erected in that place
where peace was made between the Romans and Sabines, after the rape
of the virgins. _See:_ Cloacina.
=Cluentius=, a Roman citizen, accused by his mother of having murdered
his father, 54 years B.C. He was ably defended by Cicero, in an
oration still extant. The family of the Cluentii was descended from
Cloanthus, one of the companions of Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5,
li. 122.――_Cicero_, _For Aulus Cluentius_.
=Cluilia fossa=, a place five miles distant from Rome. _Livy_, bk. 1,
ch. 23; bk. 2, ch. 39.
=Clŭpea= and =Cly̆pea=, now _Aklibia_, a town of Africa Propria,
22 miles east of Carthage, which receives its name from its exact
resemblance to a shield, _clypeus_. _Lucan_, bk. 4, li. 586.
――_Strabo_, bk. 17.――_Livy_, bk. 27, ch. 29.――_Cæsar_, _Civil War_,
bk. 2, ch. 23.
=Clusia=, a daughter of an Etrurian king, of whom Valerius Torquatus
the Roman general became enamoured. He asked her of her father, who
slighted his addresses; upon which he besieged and destroyed his
town. Clusia threw herself down from a high tower, and came to the
ground unhurt. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.
=Clusīni fontes=, baths in Etruria. _Horace_, bk. 1, ltr. 15, li. 9.
=Clusium=, now _Chiusi_, a town of Etruria, taken by the Gauls under
Brennus. Porsena was buried there. At the north of Clusium there was
a lake called _Clusina lacus_, which extended northward as far as
Arretium, and had a communication with the Arnus, which falls into
the sea at Pisa. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10,
lis. 167 & 655.
=Clusius=, a river of Cisalpine Gaul. _Polybius_, bk. 2.――――The surname
of Janus, when his temple was shut. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 1, li. 130.
=Cluvia=, a noted debauchee, &c. _Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 49.
=Cluvius Rufus=, a questor, A.U.C. 693. _Cicero_, _Letters to his
Friends_, bk. 13, ltr. 56.――――A man of Puteoli appointed by Cæsar
to divide the lands of Gaul, &c. _Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_,
bk. 13, ch. 7.
=Clymĕne=, a daughter of Oceanus and ♦Tethys, who married Japetus, by
whom she had Atlas, Prometheus, Menœtius, and Epimetheus. _Hesiod_,
_Theogony_.――――One of the Nereides, mother of Mnemosyne by Jupiter.
_Hyginus_.――――The mother of Thesimenus by Parthenopæus. _Hyginus_,
fable 71.――――A daughter of Mymas, mother of Atalanta by Jasus.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――――A daughter of Crateus, who married Nauplius.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――――The mother of Phaeton by Apollo. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, li. 756.――――A Trojan woman. _Pausanias_,
bk. 10, ch. 26.――――The mother of Homer. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 24.
――――A female servant of Helen, who accompanied her mistress to Troy,
when she eloped with Paris. _Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 17, li. 267.
――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 3, li. 144.
♦ ‘Thetys’ replaced with ‘Tethys’
=Clymeneĭdes=, a patronymic given to Phaeton’s sisters, who were
daughters of Clymene.
=Clymĕnus=, a king of Orchomenos, son of Presbon and father of Erginus,
Stratius, Arrhon, and Axius. He received a wound from a stone thrown
by a Theban, of which he died. His son Erginus, who succeeded him,
made war against the Thebans, to revenge his death. _Pausanias_,
bk. 9, ch. 37.――――One of the descendants of Hercules, who built
a temple to Minerva of Cydonia. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 21.――――A
son of Phoroneus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 35.――――A king of Elis.
_Pausanias._――――A son of Œneus king of Calydon.
=Clysony̆mus=, a son of Amphidamas, killed by Patroclus. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 3, ch. 13.
=Clytemnestra=, a daughter of Tyndarus king of Sparta by Leda. She
was born, together with her brother Castor, from one of the eggs
which her mother brought forth after her amour with Jupiter, under
the form of a swan. Clytemnestra married Agamemnon king of Argos.
She had before married Tantalus son of Thyestes, according to some
authors. When Agamemnon went to the Trojan war, he left his cousin
Ægysthus to take care of his wife, of his family, and all his
domestic affairs. Besides this, a certain favourite musician was
appointed by Agamemnon to watch over the conduct of the guardian as
well as that of Clytemnestra. In the absence of Agamemnon, Ægysthus
made his court to Clytemnestra, and publicly lived with her. Her
infidelity reached the ears of Agamemnon before the walls of Troy,
and he resolved to take full revenge upon the adulterers at his
return. He was prevented from putting his scheme into execution;
Clytemnestra, with her adulterer, murdered him at his arrival, as
he came out of the bath, or, according to other accounts, as he sat
down at a feast prepared to celebrate his happy return. Cassandra,
whom Agamemnon had brought from Troy, shared his fate; and Orestes
would also have been deprived of his life, like his father, had
not his sister Electra removed him from the reach of Clytemnestra.
After this murder, Clytemnestra publicly married Ægysthus, and he
ascended the throne of Argos. Orestes, after an absence of seven
years, returned to Mycenæ, resolved to avenge his father’s murder.
He concealed himself in the house of his sister Electra, who had been
married by the adulterers to a person of mean extraction and indigent
circumstances. His death was publicly announced; and when Ægysthus
and Clytemnestra repaired to the temple of Apollo, to return thanks
to the god for the death of the surviving son of Agamemnon, Orestes,
who with his faithful friend Pylades had concealed himself in the
temple, rushed upon the adulterers and killed them with his own hand.
They were buried without the walls of the city, as their remains
were deemed unworthy to be laid in the sepulchre of Agamemnon. _See:
_ Ægysthus, Agamemnon, Orestes, Electra. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Homer_,
_Odyssey_, bk. 11.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 2, chs. 18 & 22.――_Euripides_, _Iphigeneia in Aulis_.――_Hyginus_,
fables 117 & 140.――_Propertius_, bk. 3, poem 19.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 4, li. 471.――_Philostratus_, _Imagines_, bk. 2, ch. 9.
=Clytia=, or =Clytie=, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, beloved by
Apollo. She was deserted by her lover, who paid his addresses to
Leucothoe; and this so irritated her, that she discovered the whole
intrigue to her rival’s father. Apollo despised her the more for
this, and she pined away, and was changed into a flower, commonly
called a sunflower, which still turns its head towards the sun
in his course, as in pledge of her love. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 4, fable 3, &c.――――A daughter of Amphidamus, mother of Pelops by
Tantalus.――――A concubine of Amyntor son of Phrastor, whose calumny
caused Amyntor to put out the eyes of his falsely accused son Phœnix.
――――A daughter of Pandarus.
=Clytius=, a son of Laomedon by Strymo. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 10.――――A
youth in the army of Turnus, beloved by Cydon. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk.
10, li. 325.――――A giant, killed by Vulcan, in the war waged against
the gods. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 6.――――The father of Pireus, who
faithfully attended Telemachus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 15, li. 251.
――――A son of Æolus, who followed Æneas in Italy, where he was killed
by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 744.――――A son of Alcmæon
the son of Amphiaraus. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 17.
=Clytus=, a Greek in the Trojan war, killed by Hector. _Homer_,
_Iliad_, bk. 11, li. 302.
=Cnacadium=, a mountain of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 24.
=Cnacălis=, a mountain of Arcadia, where festivals were celebrated in
honour of Diana. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 23.
=Cnagia=, a surname of Diana.
=Cnemus=, a Macedonian general, unsuccessful in an expedition against
the Acarnanians. _Diodorus_, bk. 12.――_Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 66, &c.
=Cneus=, or =Cnæus=, a prænomen common to many Romans.
=Cnidinium=, a name given to a monument near Ephesus.
=Cnidus= and =Gnidus=, a town and promontory of Doris in Caria. Venus
was the chief deity of the place, and had there a famous statue made
by Praxiteles. _Horace_, bk. 1, ode 30.――_Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 15.
=Cnopus=, one of the descendants of Codrus, who went to settle a
colony, &c. _Polyænus_, bk. 8.
=Cnossia=, a mistress of Menelaus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 11.
=Cnossus=, or =Gnossus=, a town of Crete, about 25 stadia from the
sea. It was built by Minos, and had a famous labyrinth. _Pausanias_,
bk. 1, ch. 27.
=Co=, =Coos=, and =Cos=, now _Zia_, one of the Cyclades, situate near
the coasts of Asia, about 15 miles from the town of Halicarnassus.
Its town is called Cos, and anciently bore the name of Astypalæa.
It gave birth to Hippocrates, Apelles, and Simonides, and was famous
for its fertility, for the wine and silkworms which it produced, and
for the manufacture of silk and cotton of a beautiful and delicate
texture. The women of the island always dressed in white; and their
garments were so clear and thin, that their bodies could be seen
through, according to _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 7, fable 9. The
women of Cos were changed into cows by Venus or Juno; whom they
reproached for suffering Hercules to lead Geryon’s flocks through
their territories. _Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 4, li. 29.――_Horace_, bk.
1, satire 2, li. 101.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Pliny_, bk. 11, ch. 23.
――_Propertius_, bk. 1, poem 2, li. 2; bk. 2, poem 1, li. 5; bk. 4,
poem 2, li. 23.――_Ovid_, _Ars Amatoria_, bk. 2, li. 298.
=Coamani=, a people of Asia. _Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 2.
=Coastræ=, and =Coactræ=, a people of Asia near the Palus Mæotis.
_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 246.
=Cobares=, a celebrated magician of Media, in the age of Alexander.
_Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 4.
=Cōcălus=, a king of Sicily, who hospitably received Dædalus, when he
fled before Minos. When Minos arrived in Sicily, the daughters of
Cocalus destroyed him. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 261.
――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Cocceius Nerva=, a friend of Horace and Mecænas, and grandfather
to the emperor Nerva. He was one of those who settled the disputes
between Augustus and Antony. He afterwards accompanied Tiberius in
his retreat in Campania, and starved himself to death. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 4, ch. 58; bk. 6, ch. 26.――_Horace_, bk. 1, satire 5,
li. 27.――――An architect of Rome, one of whose buildings is still
in being, the present cathedral of Naples.――――A nephew of Otho.
_Plutarch._――――A man to whom Nero granted a triumph, after the
discovery of the Pisonian conspiracy. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15,
ch. 72.
=Coccygius=, a mountain of Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 36.
=Cocintum=, a promontory of the Brutii, now Cape _Stilo_.
=Cocles Publius Horatius=, a celebrated Roman, who, alone, opposed the
whole army of Porsenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions
behind him were cutting off the communication with the other shore.
When the bridge was destroyed, Cocles, though severely wounded in
the leg by the darts of the enemy, leaped into the Tiber, and swam
across with his arms. A brazen statue was raised to him in the
temple of Vulcan, by the consul Publicola, for his eminent services.
He had the use only of _one eye_, as _Cocles_ signifies. _Livy_,
bk. 2, ch. 10.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 3, ch. 2.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 8, li. 650.
=Coctiæ= and =Cottiæ=, certain parts of the Alps, called after Coctius,
the conqueror of the Gauls, who was in alliance with Augustus.
_Tacitus_, _Histories_.
=Cocȳtus=, a river of Epirus. The word is derived from κωκυειν, _to
weep and to lament_. Its etymology, the unwholesomeness of its water,
and above all, its vicinity to the Acheron, have made the poets
call it one of the rivers of hell, hence _Cocytia virgo_, applied
to Alecto, one of the furies. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 38;
bk. 4, li. 479; _Æneid_, bk. 6, lis. 297, 323; bk. 7, li. 479.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 17.――――A river of Campania, flowing into
the Lucrine lake.
=Codanus sinus=, one of the ancient names of the Baltic. _Pliny_,
bk. 4, ch. 13.
=Codomănus=, a surname of Darius III. king of Persia.
=Codrĭdæ=, the descendants of Codrus, who went from Athens at the head
of several colonies. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 2.
=Codropŏlis=, a town of Illyricum.
=Codrus=, the seventeenth and last king of Athens, son of Melanthus.
When the Heraclidæ made war against Athens, the oracle declared that
the victory would be granted to that nation whose king was killed in
battle. The Heraclidæ upon this gave strict orders to spare the life
of Codrus; but the patriotic king disguised himself, and attacked
one of the enemy, by whom he was killed. The Athenians obtained the
victory, and Codrus was deservedly called the father of his country.
He reigned 21 years, and was killed 1070 years before the christian
era. To pay greater honour to his memory, the Athenians made a
resolution that no man after Codrus should reign in Athens under the
name of king, and therefore the government was put into the hands
of perpetual archons. _Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 2.――_Justin_, bk. 2,
chs. 6 & 7.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 19; bk. 7, ch. 25.――_Valerius
Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 6.――――A man who, with his brothers, killed
Hegesias tyrant of Ephesus, &c. _Polyænus_, bk. 6, ch. 49.――――A
Latin poet contemporary with Virgil. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 7.
――――Another in the reign of Domitian, whose poverty became a proverb.
_Juvenal_, satire 3, li. 203.
=Cœcilus=, a centurion. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_.
=Cœla=, a place in the bay of Eubœa. _Livy_, bk. 31, ch. 47.――――A part
of Attica. _Strabo_, bk. 10.
=Cœlaletæ=, a people of Thrace.
=Cœlesyria= and =Cœlosyria=, a country of Syria, between mount Libanus
and Antilibanus, where the Orontes takes its rise. Its capital was
Damascus.――――Antiochus Cyzicenus gave his name to that part of Syria
which he obtained as his share when he divided his father’s dominions
with Grypus, B.C. 112. _Dionysius Periegetes._
=Cœlia=, the wife of Sylla. _Plutarch_, _Sulla_. The Cœlian family,
which was plebeian, but honoured with the consulship, was descended
from Vibenna Cœles, an Etrurian, who came to settle at Rome in the
age of Romulus.
=Cœlius=, a Roman, defended by Cicero.――――Two brothers of Tarracina
accused of having murdered their father in his bed. They were
acquitted when it was proved that they were both asleep at the
time of the murder. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 8, ch. 1.――_Plutarch_,
_Cicero_.――――A general of Carbo.――――An orator. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.
――――A lieutenant of Antony’s.――――Cursor, a Roman knight, in the age
of Ticerius.――――A man who, after spending his all in dissipation and
luxury, became a public robber with his friend Birrhus. _Horace_, bk.
1, satire 4, li. 69.――――A Roman historian, who flourished B.C. 121.
――――A hill of Rome. _See:_ Cælius.
=Cœlus=, or =Urānus=, an ancient deity, supposed to be the father
of Saturn, Oceanus, Hyperion, &c. He was son of Terra, whom he
afterwards married. The number of his children, according to some,
amounted to 45. They were called Titans, and were so closely confined
by their father, that they conspired against him, and were supported
by their mother, who provided them with a scythe. Saturn armed
himself with this scythe, and deprived his father of the organs
of generation, as he was going to unite himself to Terra. From
the blood which issued from the wound, sprang the giants, furies,
and nymphs. The mutilated parts were thrown into the sea, and from
them, and the foam which they occasioned, arose Venus the goddess of
beauty. _Hesiod_, &c.
=Cœnus=, an officer of Alexander, son-in-law to Parmenio. He died
of a distemper, in his return from India. _Curtius_, bk. 9, ch. 3.
――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Cœrănus=, a stoic philosopher. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 14, ch. 52.
――――A person slain by Ulysses. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13,
li. 157.――――A Greek, charioteer to Merion. He was killed by Hector.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 17, li. 610.
=Coes=, a man of Mitylene, made sovereign master of his country by
Darius. His countrymen stoned him to death. _Herodotus_, bk. 5,
chs. 11 & 38.
=Coeus=, a son of Cœlus and Terra. He was father of Latona, Asteria,
&c., by Phœbe. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, lis. 135 & 405.――_Virgil_,
_Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 279.――――A river of Messenia, flowing by
Electra. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 33.
=Cogamus=, a river of Lydia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.
=Cogidūnus=, a king of Britain, faithful to Rome. _Tacitus_,
_Agricola_, ch. 14.
=Cohibus=, a river of Asia, near Pontus.
=Cohors=, a division in the Roman armies, consisting of about 600 men.
It was the tenth part of a legion, and consequently its number was
under the same fluctuation as that of the legions, being sometimes
more and sometimes less.
=Colænus=, a king of Attica, before the age of Cecrops, according to
some accounts. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 31.
=Colaxias=, one of the remote ancestors of the Scythians. _Herodotus_,
bk. 4, ch. 5, &c.
=Colaxes=, a son of Jupiter and Ora. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 48.
=Colchi=, the inhabitants of Colchis.
=Colchis= and =Colchos=, a country of Asia, at the south of Asiatic
Sarmatia, east of the Euxine sea, north of Armenia, and west of
Iberia, now called _Mingrelia_. It is famous for the expedition
of the Argonauts, and as the birthplace of Medea. It was fruitful
in poisonous herbs, and produced excellent flax. The inhabitants
were originally Egyptians, who settled there when Sesostris king
of Egypt extended his conquests in the north. From the country
arises the epithets of _Colchus_, _Colchicus_, _Colchiachus_,
and Medea receives the name of _Colchis_. _Juvenal_, satire 6,
li. 640.――_Flaccus_, bk. 5, li. 418.――_Horace_, bk. 2, ode 13,
li. 8.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Ptolemy_, bk. 5, ch. 10.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 24; _Amores_, bk. 2, poem 14, li. 28.
――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 19; bk. 2, ch. 3.
=Colenda=, a town of Spain.
=Colias=, now _Agio Nicolo_, a promontory of Attica, in the form of a
man’s foot, where Venus had a temple. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 96.
=Collatia=, a town on the Anio, built by the people of Alba. It was
there that Sextus Tarquin offered violence to Lucretia. _Livy_,
bk. 1, ch. 37, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 3.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6,
li. 774.
=Lucius Tarquinius Collatīnus=, a nephew of Tarquin the Proud, who
married Lucretia, to whom Sextus Tarquin offered violence. He, with
Brutus, drove the Tarquins from Rome, and were made first consuls.
As he was one of the Tarquins, so much abominated by all the Roman
people, he laid down his office of consul, and retired to Alba in
voluntary banishment. _Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 57; bk. 2, ch. 2.――_Florus_,
bk. 1, ch. 9.――――One of the seven hills of Rome.
=Collīna=, one of the gates of Rome, on mount Quirinalis. _Ovid_,
_Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 871.――――A goddess at Rome, who presided over
hills. One of the original tribes established by Romulus.
=Collucia=, a lascivious woman, &c. _Juvenal_, satire 6, li. 306.
=Junius Colo=, a governor of Pontus, who brought Mithridates to the
emperor Claudius. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 12, ch. 21.
=Colōnæ=, a place of Troas. _Cornelius Nepos_, bk. 4, ch. 3.