distinguished were, Caius Cornelius, a soothsayer of Padua, who
foretold the beginning and issue of the battle of Pharsalia.
――――Dolabella, a friend and admirer of Cleopatra. He told her that
Augustus intended to remove her from the monument, where she had
retired.――――An officer of Sylla, whom Julius Cæsar bribed to escape
the proscription which threatened his life.――――Cethegus, a priest,
degraded from his office for want of attention.――――Cnæus, a man
chosen by Marcellus to be his colleague in the consulship.――――Balbus,
a man who hindered Julius Cæsar from rising up at the arrival of
the senators.――――Cossus, a military tribune during the time that
there were no consuls in the republic. He offered to Jupiter the
spoils called _opima_. _Livy_, bk. 4, ch. 19.――――Balbus, a man
of Gades, intimate with Cicero, by whom he was ably defended when
accused.――――A freedman of Sylla the dictator.――――Scipio, a man
appointed master of the horse by Camillus, when dictator.――――Gallus,
an elegiac poet. _See:_ Gallus.――――Merula, was made consul by
Augustus, in the room of Cinna.――――Marcellus, a man killed in Spain
by Galba.――――Cornelius Nepos, an historian. _See:_ Nepos.――――Merula,
a consul sent against the Boii in Gaul. He killed 1400 of them. His
grandson followed the interest of Sylla; and when Marius entered
the city he killed himself, by opening his veins.――――Gallus, a
man who died in the act of copulation. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 9,
ch. 12.――――Severus, an epic poet in the age of Augustus, of great
genius. He wrote a poem on mount Ætna, and on the death of Cicero.
_Quintilian_, bk. 10, li. 1.――――Thuscus, a mischievous person.
――――Lentulus Cethegus, a consul.――――Aulus Celsus, wrote eight books
on medicine, still extant, and highly valued.――――Cnæus and Publius
Scipio. _See:_ Scipio.――――Lentulus, a high priest, &c. _Livy._
――_Plutarch._――_Valerius Maximus._――_Tacitus._――_Suetonius._
――_Polybius._――_Cornelius Nepos_, &c.
=Cornicŭlum=, a town of Latium. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus._
=Cornificius=, a poet and general in the age of Augustus, employed
to accuse Brutus, &c. His sister Cornificia was also blessed with
a poetical genius. _Plutarch_, _Brutus_.――――A lieutenant of Julius
Cæsar. _Plutarch_, _Cæsar_.――――A friend of Cicero, and his colleague
in the office of augur.
=Cornĭger=, a surname of Bacchus.
=Cornūtus=, a stoic philosopher of Africa, preceptor to Persius
the satirist. He wrote some treatises on philosophy and rhetoric.
_Persius_, bk. 5, li. 36.――――A pretor of Rome, in the age of Cicero.
_Cicero_, bk. 10, ltr. 12.――――A Roman, saved from the proscription
of Marius by his servants, who hung up a dead man in his room, and
said it was their master. _Plutarch_, _Marius_.
=Corœbus=, a Phrygian, son of Mygdon and Anaximena. He assisted Priam
in the Trojan war, with the hopes of being rewarded with the hand of
Cassandra for his services. Cassandra advised him in vain to retire
from the war. He was killed by Peneleus. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch.
37.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 341, &c.――――A courier of Elis,
killed by Neoptolemus. He obtained a prize at Olympia, B.C. 776, in
the 28th olympiad, from the institution of Iphitus; but this year
has generally been called the first olympiad. _Pausanias_, bk. 5,
ch. 8.――――A hero of Argolis, who killed a serpent called Pœne,
sent by Apollo to avenge Argos, and placed by some authors in the
number of the furies. His country was afflicted with the plague, and
he consulted the oracle of Delphi, which commanded him to build a
temple where a tripod which was given him should fall from his hand.
_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 43.
=Corōna=, a town of Messenia. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 5.
=Coronēa=, a town of Bœotia, where, in the first year of the Corinthian
war, Agesilaus defeated the allied forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth,
and Argos, B.C. 394. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Agesilaus_.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 9, ch. 34.――_Diodorus_, bk. 12.――――A town of Peloponnesus,――――of
Corinth,――――of Cyprus,――――of Ambracia,――――of Phthiotis.
=Corōnis=, a daughter of Phlegias, loved by Apollo. She became pregnant
by her lover, who killed her on account of her criminal partiality
to Ischys the Thessalian. According to some, Diana killed her for
her infidelity to her brother, and Mercury saved the child from her
womb, as she was on the burning pile. Others say that she brought
forth her son and exposed him, near Epidaurus, to avoid her father’s
resentment; and they further mention that Apollo had set a crow to
watch her behaviour. The child was preserved, and called Æsculapius;
and the mother, after death, received divine honours, and had a
statue at Sicyon, in her son’s temple, which was never exposed to
public view. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 26.――――The daughter of Coronæus
king of Phocis, changed into a crow by Minerva, when flying before
Neptune. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 543.――――One of the
daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
=Coronia=, a town of Acarnania. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 102.
=Corōnus=, a son of Apollo. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――A son of
Phoroneus king of the Lapithæ. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Corrhāgium=, a town of Macedonia. _Livy_, bk. 31, ch. 27.
=Corsi=, a people of Sardinia, descended from the Corsicans.
=Corsia=, a town of Bœotia. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 24.
=Corsīca=, a mountainous island in the Mediterranean, on the coast
of Italy. Its inhabitants were savage, and bore the character of
robbers, liars, and atheists, according to Seneca, who was exiled
among them. They lived to a great age, and fed on honey, which
was produced in great abundance, though bitter in taste, from the
number of yew trees and hemlock which grew there. Corsica was in the
possession of the Carthaginians, and was conquered by the Romans,
B.C. 231. The Greeks called it Cyrnos. In the age of Pliny it was
considered as in a flourishing state, as it contained no less than
33 towns, a number far exceeding its present population.――_Strabo._
――_Martial_, bk. 9, ltr. 27.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 6; bk. 7, ch. 2.
――_Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 1, poem 12, li. 10.――_Virgil_, _Eclogues_,
poem 9, li. 30.
=Corsote=, a town of Armenia.
=Corsūra=, an island in the bay of Carthage.
=Cortōna=, an ancient town of Etruria, called _Corytum_ by Virgil. It
was at the north of the Thrasymene lake. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_,
bk. 1, chs. 20 & 26.――_Livy_, bk. 9, ch. 37; bk. 22, ch. 4.
=Corvīnus=, a name given to Marcus Valerius from a _crow_, which
assisted him when he was fighting against a Gaul.――――An orator.
_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 36.――――Messala, an eloquent orator, in
the Augustan age, distinguished for integrity and patriotism, yet
ridiculed for his frequent quotations of Greek in his orations. In
his old age he became so forgetful as not even to remember his own
name.――――One of this family became so poor, that he was obliged, to
maintain himself, to be a mercenary shepherd. _Juvenal_, satire 1,
li. 108.
=Tiberius Coruncānius=, the first plebeian who was made high priest at
Rome.――――The family of the _Coruncanii_ was famous for the number of
great men which it supplied for the service and honour of the Roman
republic. _Cicero_, _On his House_.
=Corus=, a river of Arabia, falling into the Red sea. _Herodotus_,
bk. 3, ch. 9.
=Corybantes=, the priests of Cybele, called also Galli. In the
celebration of their festivals, they beat their cymbals, and behaved
as if delirious. They first inhabited on mount Ida, and from thence
passed into Crete, and ♦secretly brought up Jupiter. Some suppose
that they received their name from Corybas son of Jasus and Cybele,
who first introduced the rites of his mother into Phrygia. There was
a festival at Cnossus in Crete called _Corybantica_, in commemoration
of the Corybantes, who there educated Jupiter. _Pausanias_, bk. 8,
ch. 37.――_Diodorus_, bk. 5.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 16.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 617; bk. 10, li. 250.
♦ ‘secretely’ replaced with ‘secretly’
=Cory̆bas=, a son of Jasus and Cybele. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.――――A painter,
disciple to Nicomachus. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11.
=Corybassa=, a city of Mysia.
=Cory̆bus=, a promontory of Crete.
=Corycia=, a nymph, mother of Lycorus by Apollo. _Pausanias_, bk. 10,
ch. 6.
=Cōry̆cĭdes=, the nymphs who inhabited the foot of Parnassus. This
name is often applied to the Muses. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1,
li. 320.
=Corycius=, an old man of Tarentum, whose time was happily employed in
taking care of his bees. He is represented by _Virgil_, _Georgics_,
bk. 4, li. 12, &c., as a contented old man, whose assiduity and
diligence are exemplary. Some suppose that the word _Corycius_
implies not a person of that name, but a native of Corycus, who had
settled in Italy.
=Cory̆cus=, now _Curco_, a lofty mountain of Cilicia, with a town
of the same name, and also a cave, with a grove which produced
excellent saffron. _Horace_, bk. 2, satire 4, li. 68.――_Lucan_,
bk. 9, li. 809.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27.――_Cicero_, _Letters to
his Friends_, bk. 12, ltr. 13.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.――――Another of
Ionia, long the famous retreat of robbers.――――Another at the foot
of Parnassus, sacred to the Muses. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7.
――_Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Cory̆don=, a fictitious name of a shepherd, often occuring in the
pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil.
=Coryla= and =Coryleum=, a village of Paphlagonia.
=Cory̆na=, a town of Ionia. _Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 17.
=Corymbĭfer=, a surname of Bacchus, from his wearing a crown of
_corymbi_, certain berries that grow on the ivy. _Ovid_, _Fasti_,
bk. 1, li. 393.
=Coryneta= and =Corynetes=, a famous robber, son of Vulcan, killed by
Theseus. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.
=Coryphasium=, a promontory of Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 4,
ch. 36.
=Coryphe=, a daughter of Oceanus. _Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 2,
ch. 23.
=Corythenes=, a place of Tegea. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 45.
=Corythus=, a king of Corinth. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Corytus=, a king of Etruria, father to Jasius, whom Dardanus is
said to have put to death to obtain the kingdom. It is also a town
and mountain of Etruria, now _Cortona_, near which Dardanus was
born. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 170; bk. 7, li. 209.――_Silius
Italicus_, bk. 5, li. 123; bk. 4, li. 721.
=Cos=, an island. _See:_ Co.
=Cosa= and =Cossa=, or =Cŏsæ=, a town of Etruria. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 10, li. 168.――_Livy_, bk. 22, ch. 11.――_Cicero_, bk. 9, _Letters
to Atticus_, ltr. 6.――_Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 1, ch. 34.
=Cosconius=, a Latin writer. _Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 5.――――A
wretched epigram writer. _Martial_, bk. 2, ltr. 77.
=Cosingas=, a Thracian priest of Juno, &c. _Polyænus_, bk. 7, ch. 22.
=Cosis=, a brother to the king of Albania, killed by Pompey. _Plutarch_,
_Pompey_.
=Cosmus=, an effeminate Roman. _Juvenal_, satire 8.
=Cossea=, a part of Persia. _Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Cossus=, a surname given to the family of the Cornelii.――――A Roman
who killed Volumnius king of Veii, and obtained the _Spolia Opima_,
A.U.C. 317. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 841.
=Cossutii=, a family of Rome, of which Cossutia, Cæsar’s wife, was
descended. _Suetonius_, _Cæsar_, ch. 1. One of the family was
distinguished as an architect about 200 B.C. He first introduced
into Italy the more perfect models of Greece.
=Costobœi=, robbers in Galatia. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 34.
=Cosȳra=, a barren island in the African sea near Melita. _Ovid_,
_Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 567.
=Cotes= and =Cottes=, a promontory of Mauritania.
=Cothon=, a small island near the citadel of Carthage, with a
convenient bay which served for a dock-yard. _Servius_ on _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 431.――_Diodorus_, bk. 3.
=Cothonea=, the mother of Triptolemus. _Hyginus_, fable 147.
=Cŏtĭso=, a king of the Daci, whose army invaded Pannonia, and was
defeated by Cornelius Lentulus the lieutenant of Augustus. It is
said that Augustus solicited his daughter in marriage. _Suetonius_,
_Augustus_, ch. 63.――_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 8, li. 18.
=Cotōnis=, an island near the Echinades. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.
=Cotta Marcus Aurelius=, a Roman who opposed Marius. He was consul
with Lucullus; and when in Asia, he was defeated by sea and land by
Mithridates. He was surnamed _Ponticus_, because he took Heraclea of
Pontus by treachery. _Plutarch_, _Lucullus_.――――An orator, greatly
commended by _Cicero_, _On Oratory_.――――A governor of Paphlagonia,
very faithful to Sardanapalus. _Diodorus_, bk. 2.――――A spendthrift
in the age of Nero, &c. _Tacitus._――――An officer of Cæsar in Gaul.
――――A poet mentioned by ♦_Ovid_, _Epistulæ ex Ponto_.
♦ added author’s name ‘Ovid’
=Cottiæ Alpes=, a certain part of the Alps, by which Italy is separated
from Gaul. _Suetonius_, _Tiberius_, ch. 37; _Nero_, ch. 18.
=Cottus=, a giant, son of Cœlus and Terra, who had 100 hands and
50 heads. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 147.――――A man among the Ædui.
_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_.
=Cotyæum=, a town of Galatia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 32.――――Of Phrygia.
=Cotyæus=, a surname of Æsculapius, worshipped on the borders of
the Eurotas. His temple was raised by Hercules. _Pausanias_, bk. 3,
ch. 19.
=Cotylius=, a mountain of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 41.
=Cotyora=, a city of Asia Minor, founded by a colony from Sinope.
_Diodorus_, bk. 14.
=Cotys=, the father of Asia. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 45.――――A son of
Manes by Callirhoe, who succeeded his father on the throne of Mæonia.
――――A king of Thrace. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Iphicrates_.――――Another,
who favoured the interest of Pompey. He was of an irascible temper.
_Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 54.――――Another, king of Thrace, who divided the
kingdom with his uncle, by whom he was killed. It is the same to
whom Ovid writes from his banishment. _Tacitus_, bk. 2, _Annals_,
ch. 64.――_Ovid_, bk. 2, _Epistulæ ex Ponto_, ltr. 9.――――A king of
the Odrysæ. _Livy_, bk. 42, ch. 29.――――A king of Armenia Minor,
who fought against Mithridates, in the age of Claudius. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bks. 11 & 13.――――Another, who imagined he should marry
Minerva, and who murdered some of his servants who wished to
dissuade him from expectations so frivolous and inconsistent.
_Athenæus_, bk. 12.
=Cotytto=, the goddess of all debauchery, whose festivals, called
_Cotyttia_, were celebrated by the Athenians, Corinthians,
Thracians, &c., during the night. Her priests were called Baptæ, and
nothing but debauchery and wantonness prevailed at the celebration.
A festival of the same name was observed in Sicily, where the
votaries of the goddess carried about boughs hung with cakes and
fruit, which it was lawful for any person to pluck off. It was a
capital punishment to reveal whatever was seen or done at these
sacred festivals; and it cost Eupolis his life for an unseasonable
reflection upon them. The goddess ♦Cotytto is supposed to be the
same as Proserpine or Ceres. _Horace_, epode 17, li. 58.――_Juvenal_,
satire 2, li. 91.
♦ ‘Corytto’ replaced with ‘Cotytto’
=Cragus=, a woody mountain of Cilicia, part of mount Taurus, sacred to
Apollo. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, li. 645.――_Horace_, bk. 1,
ode 21.
=Crambūsa=, a town of Lycia.
=Cranai=, a surname of the Athenians, from their king Cranaus.
_Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 44.
=Cranapes=, a Persian, &c. _Herodotus._
=Cranaus=, the second king of Athens, who succeeded Cecrops, and
reigned nine years, B.C. 1497. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 2.――――A city
of Caria. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.
=Crane=, a nymph. _See:_ ♦Cara.――――A town of Arcadia.
♦ no reference found for ‘Cara’
=Craneum=, a gymnastic school at Corinth. _Diogenes Laërtius._
=Cranii=, a town of Cephallenia. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 30.
=Cranon= and =Crannon=, a town of Thessaly on the borders of Macedonia,
where Antipater and Craterus defeated the Athenians after Alexander’s
death. _Livy_, bk. 26, ch. 10; bk. 42, ch. 64.
=Crantor=, a philosopher of Soli, among the pupils of Plato, B.C. 310.
_Diogenes Laërtius._――――An armour-bearer of Peleus, killed by
Demoleon. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 361.
=Crassĭpes=, a surname of the family of the Furii, one of whom married
Tullia, Cicero’s daughter, whom he soon after divorced. _Cicero_,
_Letters to Atticus_, bk. 4, ltr. 5.――_Livy_, bk. 38, ch. 42.
=Lucius Crassitius=, a man who opened a school at Rome. _Suetonius_,
_Lives of the Grammarians_, ch. 18.
=Crassus=, the grandfather of Crassus the Rich, who never laughed.
_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 19.――――Publius Licinius, a Roman high priest
about 131 years B.C., who went into Asia with an army against
Aristonicus, where he was killed and buried at Smyrna.――――Marcus
Licinius, a celebrated Roman, surnamed _Rich_, on account of his
opulence. At first he was very circumscribed in his circumstances;
but, by educating slaves, and selling them at a high price, he soon
enriched himself. The cruelties of Cinna obliged him to leave Rome;
and he retired to Spain, where he remained concealed for eight
months. After Cinna’s death he passed into Africa, and thence to
Italy, where he served Sylla, and ingratiated himself in his favour.
When the gladiators, with Spartacus at their head, had spread a
universal alarm in Italy, and defeated some of the Roman generals,
Crassus was sent against them. A battle was fought, in which Crassus
slaughtered 12,000 of the slaves, and by this decisive blow he soon
put an end to the war, and was honoured with an _ovatio_ at his
return. He was soon after made consul with Pompey; and in this
high office he displayed his opulence, by entertaining the populace
at 10,000 tables. He was afterwards censor, and formed the first
triumvirate with Pompey and Cæsar. As his love of riches was more
predominant than that of glory, Crassus never imitated the ambitious
conduct of his colleagues, but was satisfied with the province of
Syria, which seemed to promise an inexhaustible source of wealth.
With hopes of enlarging his possessions, he set off from Rome,
though the omens proved unfavourable, and everything seemed to
threaten his ruin. He crossed the Euphrates, and, forgetful of the
rich cities of Babylon and Seleucia, he hastened to make himself
master of Parthia. He was betrayed in his march by the delay of
Artavasdes king of Armenia, and the perfidy of Ariamnes. He was
met in a large plain by Surena, the general of the forces of Orodes
the king of Parthia; and a battle was fought in which 20,000 Romans
were killed, and 10,000 taken prisoners. The darkness of the night
favoured the escape of the rest, and Crassus, forced by the mutiny
and turbulence of his soldiers, and the treachery of his guides,
trusted himself to the general of the enemy, on pretence of
proposing terms of accommodation, and he was put to death, B.C. 53.
His head was cut off and sent to Orodes, who poured melted lead
down his throat, and insulted his misfortunes. The firmness with
which Crassus received the news of his son’s death, who perished in
that expedition, has been deservedly commended; and the words that
he uttered when he surrendered himself into the hands of Surena,
equally claim our admiration. He was wont often to say, that no
man ought to be accounted rich if he could not maintain an army.
Though he has been called avaricious, yet he showed himself always
ready to lend money to his friends without interest. He was fond of
philosophy, and his knowledge of history was great and extensive.
_Plutarch_ has written his life. _Florus_, bk. 3, ch. 11.――――Publius,
the son of the rich Crassus, went into Parthia with his father.
When he saw himself surrounded by the enemy, and without any hope of
escape, he ordered one of his men to run him through. His head was
cut off, and shown with insolence to his father by the Parthians.
_Plutarch_, _Crassus_.――――Lucius Licinius, a celebrated Roman orator,
commended by Cicero, and introduced in his book _On Oratory_ as the
principal speaker.――――A son of Crassus the Rich, killed in the civil
wars, after Cæsar’s death.
=Crastīnus=, a man in Cæsar’s army, killed at the battle of Pharsalia.
_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 3, ch. 29.
=Cratais=, the mother of Scylla, supposed to be the same as Hecate.
_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 12, li. 124.
=Cratæus=, conspired against Archelaus, &c. _Aristotle._
=Crater=, a bay of Campania near Misenus.
=Cratĕrus=, one of Alexander’s generals. He rendered himself
conspicuous by his literary fame, as well as by his valour in the
field, and wrote the history of Alexander’s life. He was greatly
respected and loved by the Macedonian soldiers, and Alexander always
trusted him with unusual confidence. After Alexander’s death he
subdued Greece with Antipater, and passed with his colleague into
Asia, where he was killed in a battle against Eumenes, B.C. 321.
He had received for his share of Alexander’s kingdoms, Greece and
Epirus. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Eumenes_, ch. 2.――_Justin_, bks. 12
& 13.――_Curtius_, bk. 3.――_Arrian._――_Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――――A
physician of Atticus, mentioned by _Cicero_, bk. 12, _Letters to
Atticus_, ltr. 13.――_Horace_, bk. 2, satire 3, li. 161.――――A painter
whose pieces adorned the public buildings of Athens. _Pliny_, bk. 35,
ch. 11.――――An Athenian, who collected into one body all the decrees
which had passed in the public assemblies at Athens.――――A famous
sculptor.
=Crates=, a philosopher of Bœotia, son of Ascondus, and disciple of
Diogenes the Cynic, B.C. 324. He sold his estates, and gave the
money to his fellow-citizens. He was naturally deformed, and he
rendered himself more hideous by sewing sheepskins to his mantle,
and by the singularity of his manners. He clothed himself as warm
as possible in the summer; but in the winter, his garments were
uncommonly thin, and incapable to resist the inclemency of the
season. Hipparchia, the sister of a philosopher, became enamoured of
him; and as he could not check her passion by representing himself
as poor and deformed, he married her. He had by her two daughters,
whom he gave in marriage to his disciples, after he had permitted
them their company for 30 days, by way of trial. Some of his letters
are extant. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives and Opinions of Eminent
Philosophers_.――――A stoic, son of Timocrates, who opened a school at
Rome, where he taught grammar. _Suetonius._――――A native of Pergamus,
who wrote an account of the most striking events of every age, B.C.
165. _Ælian_, _de Natura Animalium_, bk. 17, ch. 9.――――A philosopher
of Athens, who succeeded in the school of his master Polemon.――――An
Athenian comic poet.
=Cratesiclēa=, the mother of Cleomenes, who went to Egypt in hopes of
serving her country, &c. _Plutarch_, _Cleomenes_.
=Cratesipŏlis=, a queen of Sicyon, who severely punished some of her
subjects, who had revolted at the death of Alexander her husband, &c.
_Polyænus_, bk. 8, ch. 58.
=Cratesippĭdas=, a commander of the Lacedæmonian fleet against the
Athenians, &c. _Diodorus_, bk. 13.
=Cratēvas=, a general of Cassander. _Diodorus_, bk. 19.
=Crateus=, a son of Minos.
=Crathis=, a river of Achaia, falling into the bay of Corinth.
_Strabo_, bk. 8.――――Another in Magna Græcia, whose waters were
supposed to give a yellow colour to the hair and beard of those that
drank them. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 315.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 7, ch. 25.――_Pliny_, bk. 31, ch. 2.
=Cratīnus=, a native of Athens, celebrated for his comic writings,
and his fondness for drinking. He died at the age of ♦97 years,
B.C. 431. Quintilian greatly commends his comedies, which the
little remains of his poetry do not seem fully to justify. _Horace_,
bk. 1, satire 4.――_Quintilian._――――A wrestler of an uncommon beauty.
_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 25.――――A river of Asia. _Pliny_, bk. 37,
ch. 2.
♦ ‘97, B.C. 431 years.’ replaced with ‘97 years, B.C. 431.’
=Cratippus=, a philosopher of Mitylene, who, among others, taught
Cicero’s son at Athens. After the battle of Pharsalia, Pompey
visited the house of Cratippus, where their discourse was chiefly
turned upon Providence, which the warrior blamed, and the philosopher
defended. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.――_Cicero_, _De Officiis_, bk. 1.
――――An historian contemporary with Thucydides. _Dionysius of
Halicarnassus._
=Craty̆les=, a philosopher, preceptor to Plato after Socrates.
=Crausiæ=, two islands on the coast of Peloponnesus.
=Crausis=, the father of Philopœmen.
=Crauxĭdas=, a man who obtained an Olympic crown at a horse-race.
_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 8.