for the death of the 300 Fabii, who were killed there in a battle
against the Veientes, A.U.C. 277. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 2, li. 205.
――_Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 155.
=Cremides=, a place of Bithynia. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.
=Cremma=, a town of Lycia.
=Cremmyon= and =Crommyon=, a town near Corinth, where Theseus killed a
sow of uncommon bigness. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 7, li. 435.
=Cremni= and =Cremnos=, a commercial place on the Palus Mæotis.
_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 2.
=Cremōna=, a town of Cisalpine Gaul, on the Po, near Mantua. It was a
Roman colony, and suffered much when Annibal first passed into Italy.
_Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 56.――_Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 3, chs. 4 & 19.
=Cremōnis Jugum=, a part of the Alps, over which, as some suppose,
Annibal passed to enter Italy. _Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 38.
=Cremutius Cordus=, an historian who wrote an account of Augustus, and
of the civil wars, and starved himself for fear of the resentment
of Tiberius, whom he had offended by calling Cassius the last of
the Romans. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 55, chs. 34, 35.――_Suetonius_,
_Augustus_, ch. 35; _Tiberius_, ch. 60, _Caligula_, ch. 16.
=Crenis=, a nymph mentioned by _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 313.
=Creon=, king of Corinth, was son of Sisyphus. He promised his daughter
Glauce to Jason, who repudiated Medea. To revenge the success of
her rival, Medea sent her for a present a gown covered with poison.
Glauce put it on and was seized with sudden pains. Her body took
fire, and she expired in the greatest torments. The house was also
consumed by the fire, and Creon and his family shared Glauce’s fate.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 7.――_Euripides_, _Medea_.
――_Hyginus_, fable 25.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――――A son of Menœtius
father of Jocasta, the wife and mother of Œdipus. At the death of
Laius, who married Jocasta, Creon ascended the vacant throne of
Thebes. As the ravages of the Sphinx [_See:_ Sphinx] were intolerable,
Creon offered his crown and daughter in marriage to him who could
explain the enigmas which the monster proposed. Œdipus was happy in
his explanations, and he ascended the throne of Thebes, and married
Jocasta without knowing that she was his mother, and by her he had
two sons, Polynices and Eteocles. These two sons mutually agreed,
after their father’s death, to reign in the kingdom each alternately.
Eteocles first ascended the throne by right of seniority; but when
he was once in power, he refused to resign at the appointed time,
and his brother led against him an army of Argives to support his
right. The war was decided by single combat between the two brothers.
They both killed one another and Creon ascended the throne, till
Leodamas the son of Eteocles should be of sufficient age to assume
the reins of government. In his regal capacity, Creon commanded
that the Argives, and more particularly Polynices, who was the cause
of all the bloodshed, should remain unburied. If this was in any
manner disobeyed, the offenders were to be buried alive. Antigone
the sister of Polynices transgressed, and was accordingly punished.
Hæmon the son of Creon, who was passionately fond of Antigone, killed
himself on her grave, when his father refused to grant her pardon.
Creon was afterwards killed by Theseus, who had made war against him
at the request of Adrastus, because he refused burial to the Argives.
_See:_ Eteocles, Polynices, Adrastus, Œdipus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3,
ch. 56, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 39; bk. 9, ch. 5, &c.――_Statius_,
_Thebiad_.――_Sophocles_, _Antigone_.――_Aeschylus_, _Seven Against
Thebes_.――_Hyginus_, fables 67 & 76.――_Diodorus_, bks. 1 & 4.――――The
first annual archon at Athens. 684 B.C. _Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.
=Creontiădes=, a son of Hercules by Megara daughter of Creon, killed
by his father because he had slain Lycus.
=Creŏphĭlus=, a Samian who hospitably entertained Homer, from whom he
received a poem in return. Some say that he was that poet’s master,
&c. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――――An historian. _Athenæus_, bk. 8.
=Creperius Pollio=, a Roman, who spent his all in the most extravagant
debauchery. _Juvenal_, satire 9, li. 6.
=Cres=, an inhabitant of Crete.――――The first king of Crete. _Pausanias_,
bk. 8, ch. 53.
=Cresa= and =Cressa=, a town of Caria.
=Cresius=, a hill of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 44.
=Cresphontes=, a son of Aristomachus, who, with his brothers Temenus
and Aristodemus, attempted to recover the Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_,
bk. 4, ch. 3, &c.
=Cressius=, belonging to Crete. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 70;
bk. 8, li. 294.
=Creston=, a town of Thrace, capital of a part of the country called
_Crestonia_. The inhabitants had each many wives; and when the
husband died, she who had received the greatest share of his
affection was cheerfully slain on his grave. _Herodotus_, bk. 5,
ch. 5.
=Cresus= and =Ephesus=, two men who built the temple of Diana at
Ephesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 2.
=Crēta=, now _Candia_, one of the largest islands of the Mediterranean
sea, at the south of all the Cyclades. It was once famous for its
100 cities, and for the laws which the wisdom of Minos established
there. The inhabitants have been detested for their unnatural loves,
their falsehood, their piracies, and robberies. Jupiter, as some
authors report, was educated in that island by the Corybantes,
and the Cretans boasted that they could show his tomb. There
were different colonies from Phrygia, Doris, Achaia, &c., that
established themselves there. The island, after groaning under
the tyranny of democratical usurpation, and feeling the scourge of
frequent sedition, was made a Roman province, B.C. 66, after a war
of three years, in which the inhabitants were so distressed that
they were even compelled to drink the water of their cattle. Chalk
was produced there and thence called _Creta_, and with it the Romans
marked their lucky days in their calendar. _Horace_, bk. 1, ode 36,
li. 10; epode 9.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 444; _Epistles_,
bk. 10, li. 106.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 7, ch. 6.――_Strabo_,
bk. 10.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 184.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li.
104.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.
=Cretæus=, a poet mentioned by _Propertius_, bk. 2, poem 34, li. 29.
=Crete=, the wife of Minos. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 1.――――A daughter
of Deucalion. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 3.
=Cretea=, a country of Arcadia, where Jupiter was educated, according
to some traditions. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 38.
=Cretes=, inhabitants of Crete. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 146.
=Creteus=, a Trojan, distinguished as a poet and musician. He followed
Æneas, and was killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 774.
――――Another, killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 538.
=Cretheis=, the wife of Acastus king of Iolchos, who fell in love with
Peleus son of Æacus, and accused him of attempts upon her virtue,
because he refused to comply with her wishes, &c. She is called by
some Hippolyte or Astyadamia. _Pindar_, _Nemean_, ch. 4.
=Cretheus=, a son of ♦Æolus father of ♥Æson, by Tyro his brother’s
daughter. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7, &c.
♦ ‘Œolus’ replaced with ‘Æolus’
♥ ‘Œson’ replaced with ‘Æson’
=Crethon=, a son of Diocles, engaged in the Trojan war on the side
of Greece. He was slain, with his brother Orsilochus, by ♦Æneas.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5, li. 540.
♦ ‘Œneas’ replaced with ‘Æneas’
=Cretĭcus=, a certain orator. _Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 67.――――A
surname of Marcus Antony’s father.
=Cressas=, a famous boxer. _Pausanias_, bk. 2.
=Creūsa=, a daughter of Creon king of Corinth. As she was going to
marry Jason, who had divorced Medea, she put on a poisoned garment,
which immediately set her body on fire, and she expired in the most
excruciating torments. She had received this gown as a gift from
Medea, who wished to take that revenge upon the infidelity of Jason.
Some call her Glauce. _Ovid_, _de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 1, li. 335.
――――A daughter of Priam king of Troy by Hecuba. She married Æneas,
by whom she had some children, among which was Ascanius. When Troy
was taken, she fled in the night, with her husband; but they were
separated in the midst of the confusion, and Æneas could not recover
her, nor hear where she was. Cybele saved her, and carried her to
her temple, of which she became priestess; according to the relation
of Vigil, who makes Creusa appear to her husband in a vision, while
he was seeking her in the tumult of war. She predicted to Æneas the
calamities that attended him, the fame he should acquire when he
came to Italy, and his consequent marriage with a princess of the
country. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 16.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2,
li. 562, &c.――――A daughter of Erechtheus king of Athens. She was
mother of Janus by Apollo.――――A town of Bœotia. _Strabo_, bk. 9.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 32.
=Creusis=, a naval station of the Thespians. _Pausanias_, bk. 9,
ch. 32.
=Criăsus=, a son of Argos king of Peloponnesus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2,
ch. 1.
=Crinippus=, a general of Dionysius the elder.
=Crinis=, a stoic philosopher. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――A priest of
Apollo.
=Crinīsus= and =Crimīsus=, now _Caltabellota_, a river on the
western parts of ♦Sicily near Segesta, where Timoleon defeated
the Carthaginian forces. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Timoleon_.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 38. The word in the various editions of Virgil,
is spelt Cremissus, Crimissus, Crimisus, Crimesus, Crinisus,
Crimnisus. The Crinisus was a Trojan prince, who exposed his
daughter on the sea, rather than suffer her to be devoured by the
sea monster which Neptune sent to punish the infidelity of Laomedon.
_See:_ Laomedon. The daughter came safe to the shores of Sicily.
Crinisus some time after went in quest of his daughter, and was so
disconsolate for her loss, that the gods changed him into a river
in Sicily, and granted him the power of metamorphosing himself into
whatever shape he pleased. He made use of this privilege to seduce
the neighbouring nymphs.
♦ ‘Cicily’ replaced with ‘Sicily’
=Crino=, a daughter of Antenor. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 27.――――One
of the Danaides. _Apollodorus._
=Crison=, a man of Himera, who obtained a prize at Olympia, &c.
_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 23.
=Crispīna=, a Roman matron, &c. _Tacitus_, bk. 1, _Histories_, ch. 47.
=Crispīnus=, a pretorian, who, though originally a slave in Egypt,
was, after the acquisition of riches, raised to the honours of Roman
knighthood by Domitian. _Juvenal_, satire 1, li. 26.――――A stoic
philosopher, as remarkable for his loquacity as for the foolish and
tedious poem which he wrote, to explain the tenets of his own sect,
to which _Horace_ alludes in the last verses of bk. 1, satire 1.
=Crispus Sallustius.= _See:_ Sallustius.――――Virio, a famous orator.
_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.――――The second husband of Agrippina.
――――Flavius Julius, a son of the Great Constantine, made Cæsar by
his father, and distinguished for valour and extensive knowledge.
Fausta, his stepmother, wished to seduce him; and when he refused,
she accused him before Constantine, who believed the crime, and
caused his son to be poisoned, A.D. 326.
=Crissæus sinus=, a bay on the coast of Peloponnesus, near Corinth,
now the bay of _Salona_. It received its name from _Crissa_, a town
of Phocis, situate on the bay and near Delphi.
=Critāla=, a town of Cappadocia. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 26.
=Crithēis=, a daughter of Melanippus, who became pregnant by an unknown
person, and afterwards married Phemicis of Smyrna, and brought forth
the poet Homer, according to _Herodotus_, _Life of Homer_.
=Crithōte=, a town of the Thracian Chersonesus. _Cornelius Nepos._
=Critias=, one of the 30 tyrants set over Athens by the Spartans.
He was eloquent and well-bred, but of dangerous principles, and he
cruelly persecuted his enemies, and put them to death. He was killed
in a battle against those citizens whom his oppression had banished.
He had been among the disciples of Socrates, and had written elegies
and other compositions, of which some fragments remain. _Cicero_, bk.
2, _On Oratory_.――――A philosopher.――――A man who wrote on republics.
――――Another who addressed an elegy to Alcibiades.
=Crito=, one of the disciples of Socrates, who attended his learned
preceptor in his last moments, and composed some dialogues, now
lost. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――A physician in the age of Artaxerxes
Longimanus.――――An historian of Naxus, who wrote an account of all
that had happened during eight particular years of his life.――――A
Macedonian historian, who wrote an account of Pallene, of Persia,
of the foundation of Syracuse, of the Getæ, &c.
=Critobūlus=, a general of Phocis, at the battle of Thermopylæ, between
Antiochus and the Romans. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 20.――――A physician
in the age of Philip king of Macedonia. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 37.――――A
son of Crito, disciple to Socrates. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Crito_.
=Critodēmus=, an ancient historian. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 76.
=Critognātus=, a celebrated warrior of Alesia, when Cæsar was in Gaul.
_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_.
=Critolāus=, a citizen of Tegea in Arcadia, who, with two brothers,
fought against the three sons of Demostratus of Pheneus, to put an
end to the long war between their respective nations. The brothers
of Critolaus were both killed, and he alone remained to withstand
his three bold antagonists. He conquered them; and when, at his
return, his sister deplored the death of one of his antagonists to
whom she was betrothed, he killed her in a fit of resentment. The
offence deserved capital punishment; but he was pardoned, on account
of the services he had rendered his country. He was afterwards
general of the Achæans, and it is said that he poisoned himself,
because he had been conquered at Thermopylæ by the Romans. _Cicero_,
_de Natura Deorum_.――――A peripatetic philosopher of Athens, sent
ambassador to Rome, &c., 140 B.C. _Cicero_, bk. 2, _On Oratory_.
――――An historian who wrote about Epirus.
=Crius=, a soothsayer, son of Theocles. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 13.
――――A man of Ægina, &c. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 50.――――A river of
Achaia, called after a giant of the same name. _Pausanias_, bk. 7,
ch. 27.
=Crobialus=, a town of Paphlagonia.
=Crobyzi=, a people of Thrace.
=Crŏcăle=, one of Diana’s attendants. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3.
=Croceæ=, a town of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 21.
=Crocodilopŏ1is=, a town of Egypt, near the Nile, above Memphis. The
crocodiles were held there in the greatest veneration; and they were
so tame, that they came to feed from the hand of their feeders. It
was afterwards called Arsinoe. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 69.――_Strabo_,
bk. 17.
=Crocus=, a beautiful youth enamoured of the nymph Smilax. He was
changed into a flower of the same name, on account of the impatience
of his love, and Smilax was metamorphosed into a yew tree. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, li. 283.
=Crœsus=, the fifth and last of the Mermnadæ, who reigned in Lydia,
was son of Alyattes, and passed for the richest of mankind. He was
the first who made the Greeks of Asia tributary to the Lydians. His
court was the asylum of learning; and Æsop the famous fable-writer,
among others, lived under his patronage. In a conversation with
Solon, Crœsus wished to be thought the happiest of mankind; but the
philosopher apprised him of his mistake, and gave the preference to
poverty and domestic virtue. Crœsus undertook a war against Cyrus
the king of Persia, and marched to meet him with an army of 420,000
men and 60,000 horse. After a reign of 14 years, he was defeated,
B.C. 548; his capital was besieged, and he fell into the conqueror’s
hands, who ordered him to be burnt alive. The pile was already on
fire, when Cyrus heard the conquered monarch three times exclaim,
“Solon!” with lamentable energy. He asked him the reason of his
exclamation, and Crœsus repeated the conversation which he had
once with Solon on human happiness. Cyrus was moved at the recital,
and at the recollection of the inconstancy of human affairs, he
ordered Crœsus to be taken from the burning pile, and he became one
of his most intimate friends. The kingdom of Lydia became extinct
in his person, and the power was transferred to Persia. Crœsus
survived Cyrus. The manner of his death is unknown. He is celebrated
for the immensely rich presents which he made to the temple of
Delphi, from which he received an obscure and ambiguous oracle,
which he interpreted in his favour, and which was fulfilled in
the destruction of his empire. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 26, &c.
――_Plutarch_, _Solon_, bk. 8, ch. 24.――_Justin_, bk. 1, ch. 7.
=Cromi=, a people of Arcadia.
=Cromītis=, a country of Arcadia.
=Crommyon= and =Cromyon=, a place of Attica, where Perseus killed
a large sow that laid waste the neighbouring country. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 7.――_Xenophon._――――A town near Corinth.
_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Cromna=, a town of Bithyna.
=Cromus=, a son of Neptune. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 1.――――A son of
Lycaon. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 3.
=Cronia=, a festival at Athens in honour of Saturn. The Rhodians
observed the same festival, and generally sacrificed to the god a
condemned malefactor.
=Cronium=, a town of Elis,――――of Sicily.
=Crophi=, a mountain of Egypt, near which were the sources of the Nile,
according to some traditions, in the city of _Sais_. _Herodotus_,
bk. 2, ch. 28.
=Crossæa=, a country situate partly in Thrace, and partly in Macedonia.
_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 123.
=Crotălus=, a navigable river of Italy. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 10.
=Croton=, a man killed by Hercules, by whom he was afterwards greatly
honoured. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Crŏtōna=, a town of Italy, still known by the same name, in the bay
of Tarentum, founded 759 years before the Augustan age, by a colony
from Achaia. The inhabitants were excellent warriors, and great
wrestlers. Democedes, Alcmæon, Milo, &c., were natives of this place.
It was surrounded with a wall 12 miles in circumference, before the
arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy. Crotona struggled in vain against the
attacks of Dionysius of Sicily, who took it. It suffered likewise
in the wars of Pyrrhus and Annibal, but it received ample glory, in
being the place where Pythagoras established his school. _Herodotus_,
bk. 8, ch. 47.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 96.――_Livy_,
bk. 1, ch. 18; bk. 24, ch. 3.――_Justin_, bk. 20, ch. 2.
=Crotoniatæ=, the inhabitants of Crotona. _Cicero_, _de Inventione_,
bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Crotoniatis=, a part of Italy, of which Crotona is the capital.
_Thucydides_, bk. 7, ch. 35.
=Crotopiădes=, a patronymic of Linus, as grandson of Crotopus.
=Crotōpias=, the patronymic of Linus grandson of Crotopus. _Ovid_,
_Ibis_, li. 480.
=Crotōpus=, a king of Argos, son of Agenor, and father to Psamathe the
mother of Linus by Apollo. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 480.
=Crotus=, a son of Eumene the nurse of the Muses. He devoted his life
to the labours of the chase, and after death Jupiter placed him
among the constellations, under the name of Sagittarius. _Pausanias_,
bk. 9, ch. 29.
=Crunos=, a town of Peloponnesus. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
=Crusis=, a place near Olynthos.
=Crustŭmĕrium= and =Crustumeria=, a town of the Sabines. _Livy_, bk. 4,
ch. 9; bk. 42, ch. 34.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 631.
=Crustūmīnum=, a town of Etruria, near Veii, famous for pears; whence
the adjective _Crustumia_. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 88.
=Crustŭmium=, =Crustunus=, and =Crusturnenius=, now _Conca_, a river
flowing from the Apennines by Ariminum. _Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 406.
=Crynis=, a river of Bithynia.
=Crypta=, a passage through mount Pausilypus. _See:_ Pausilypus.
=Cteătus=, one of the Grecian chiefs before Troy. _Pausanias_, bk. 5,
ch. 4.
=Ctemene=, a town of Thessaly.
=Ctenos=, a harbour of Chersonesus Taurica.
=Ctesias=, a Greek historian and physician of Cnidos, taken prisoner
by Artaxerxes Mnemon at the battle of Cunaxa. He cured the king’s
wounds, and was his physician for 17 years. He wrote a history of
the Assyrians and Persians, which Justin and Diodorus have partially
preferred to that of Herodotus. Some fragments of his compositions
have been preserved by Photius, and are to be found in Wesseling’s
edition of Herodotus. _Strabo_, bk. 1.――_Athenæus_, bk. 12.
――_Plutarch_, _Artaxerxes_.――――A sycophant of Athens.――――An
historian of Ephesus.
=Ctesibius=, a mathematician of Alexandria, who flourished 135
years B. C. He was the inventor of the pump and other hydraulic
instruments. He also invented a _clepsydra_, or water clock. This
invention of measuring time by water was wonderful and ingenious.
Water was made to drop upon wheels, which it turned. The wheels
communicated their regular motion to a small wooden image, which,
by a gradual rise, pointed with a stick to the proper hours and
months, which were engraved on a column near the machine. This artful
invention gave rise to many improvements; and the modern manner of
measuring time with an hour-glass is an imitation of the clepsydra
of Ctesibius. _Vitruvius_, _On Architecture_, bk. 9, ch. 9.――――A
cynic philosopher.――――An historian, who flourished 254 years B.C.,
and died in his 104th year. _Plutarch_, _Demosthenes_.
=Ctesĭcle=, a general of Zacynthos.
=Ctesidēmus=, a painter who had Antiphilus for pupil. _Pliny_, bk. 35,
ch. 10.
=Ctesilŏchus=, a noble painter, who represented Jupiter as bringing
forth Bacchus. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11.
=Ctesĭphon=, an Athenian, son of Leosthenes, who advised his
fellow-citizens publicly to present Demosthenes with a golden crown
for his probity and virtue. This was opposed by the orator Æschines,
the rival of Demosthenes, who accused Ctesiphon of seditious views.
Demosthenes undertook the defence of his friend, in a celebrated
oration still extant, and Æschines was banished. _Demosthenes_
& _Æschines_, _On the Crown_.――――A Greek architect, who made the
plan of Diana’s temple at Ephesus.――――An elegiac poet, whom king
Attalus sat over his possessions in Æolia. _Athenæus_, bk. 13.――――A
Greek historian, who wrote a history of Bœotia, besides a treatise
on trees and plants. ♦_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――――A large village
of Assyria, now _Elmodain_, on the banks of the Tigris, where the
kings of Parthia generally resided on account of the mildness of the
climate. _Strabo_, bk. 15.――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 26.
♦ ‘Put.’ replaced with ‘Plutarch’
=Ctesippus=, a son of Chabrias. After his father’s death he was
received into the house of Phocion, the friend of Chabrias. Phocion
attempted in vain to correct his natural foibles and extravagancies.
_Plutarch_, _Phocion_.――――A man who wrote a history of Scythia.
――――One of the descendants of Hercules.
=Ctimĕne=, the youngest daughter of Laertes by Anticlea. _Homer_,
_Odyssey_, bk. 15, li. 334.
=Cularo=, a town of the Allobroges in Gaul, called afterwards
_Gratianopolis_, and now _Grenoble_. _Cicero_, _Letters to his
Friends_.
=Cuma= and =Cumæ=, a town of Æolia, in Asia Minor. The inhabitants
have been accused of stupidity for not laying a tax upon all the
goods which entered their harbour during 300 years. They were called
_Cumani_. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――_Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 4.――――A city
of Campania, near Puteoli, founded by a colony from Chalcis and Cumæ,
of Æolia, before the Trojan war. The inhabitants were called _Cumæi_
and _Cumani_. There was one of the Sibyls that fixed her residence
in a cave in the neighbourhood, and was called the _Cumæan_ Sibyl.
_See:_ Sibyllæ.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 712; _Fasti_,
bk. 4, li. 158; _Ex Ponto_, bk. 2, poem 8, li. 41.――_Cicero_, _De
Lege Agraria contra Rullum_, bk. 2, ch. 26.――_Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch.
4.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 441.――_Livy_, bk. 4.――_Ptolemy_,
bk. 3.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.
=Cumānum=, a country house of Pompey, near Cumæ. _Cicero_, _Letters to
Atticus_, bk. 4, ltr. 10.――――Another of Varro. _Cicero_, _Academica_,
bk. 1, ch. 1.