battle fought there between Artaxerxes and his brother Cyrus the
younger, B.C. 401. The latter entered the field of battle with 113,
000 men, and the former’s forces amounted to 900,000 men. The valour
and the retreat of the 10,000 Greeks, who were among the troops
of Cyrus, are well known, and have been celebrated by the pen of
Xenophon, who was present at the battle, and who had the principal
care of the retreat. _Plutarch_, _Artaxerxes_.――_Ctesias._
=Cuneus=, a cape of Spain, now _Algarve_, extending into the sea in
the form of a wedge. _Mela_, bk. 3, ch. 1.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 22.
=Capāvo=, a son of Cycnus, who assisted Æneas against Turnus. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 186.
=Cupentus=, a friend of Turnus, killed by Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 12, li. 539.
=Cupīdo=, a celebrated deity among the ancients, god of love, and
love itself. There are different traditions concerning his parents.
Cicero mentions three Cupids: one, son of Mercury and Diana; another,
son of Mercury and Venus; and the third, of Mars and Venus. Plato
mentions two; Hesiod, the most ancient theogonist, speaks only of
one, who as he says, was produced at the same time as Chaos and
the earth. There are, according to the more received opinions, two
Cupids, one of whom is a lively, ingenious youth, son of Jupiter and
Venus; whilst the other, son of Nox and Erebus, is distinguished by
his debauchery and riotous disposition. Cupid is represented as a
winged infant, naked, armed with a bow and a quiver full of arrows.
On gems, and all other pieces of antiquity, he is represented as
amusing himself with some childish diversion. Sometimes he appears
driving a hoop, throwing a quoit, playing with a nymph, catching
a butterfly, or trying to burn with a torch; at other times he
plays upon a horn before his mother, or closely embraces a swan,
or with one foot raised in the air, he, in a musing posture, seems
to meditate some trick. Sometimes, like a conqueror, he marches
triumphantly, with a helmet on his head, a spear on his shoulder,
and a buckler on his arm, intimating that even Mars himself owns
the superiority of love. His power was generally known by his riding
on the back of a lion, or on a dolphin, or breaking to pieces the
thunderbolts of Jupiter. Among the ancients he was worshipped with
the same solemnity as his mother Venus, and as his influence was
extended over the heavens, the sea, and the earth, and even the
empire of the dead, his divinity was universally acknowledged, and
vows, prayers, and sacrifices were daily offered to him. According
to some accounts, the union of Cupid with Chaos gave birth to men,
and all the animals which inhabit the earth, and even the gods
themselves, were the offspring of love, before the foundation of the
world. Cupid, like the rest of the gods, assumed different shapes;
and we find him in the Æneid putting on, at the request of his
mother, the form of Ascanius, and going to Dido’s court, where he
inspired the queen with love. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 693, &c.
――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 1, fable 10.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 121, &c.――_Oppian_,
_Halieutica_, bk. 4.――_Cynegetica_, bk. 2.――_Bion_, _Idylls_, bk. 3.
――_Moschus._――_Euripides_, _Hippolytus_.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_,
poems 3, 11, &c.
=Cupiennius=, a friend of Augustus, who made himself ridiculous for
the nicety and effeminacy of his dress. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 2,
li. 36.
=Cures=, a town of the Sabines, of which Tatius was king. The
inhabitants, called _Quirites_, were carried to Rome, of which
they became citizens. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 292; bk. 8,
li. 638.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――_Macrobius_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Ovid_,
_Fasti_, bk. 2, lis. 477 & 480; bk. 3, li. 94.
=Curētes=, a people of Crete, called also _Corybantes_, who, according
to Ovid, were produced from rain. Their knowledge of all the arts
was extensive, and they communicated it to many parts of ancient
Greece. They were entrusted with the education of Jupiter, and
to prevent his being discovered by his father, they invented a
kind of dance, and drowned his cries in the harsh sounds of their
shields and cymbals. As a reward for their attention, they were made
priests and favourite ministers of Rhea, called also Cybele, who had
entrusted them with the care of Jupiter. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_,
bk. 2.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 151.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 33.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4,
li. 282; _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 210.
=Curētis=, a name given to Crete, as being the residence of the
Curetes. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 136.
=Curia=, a division of the Roman tribes. Romulus originally divided
the people into three tribes, and each tribe into 10 Curiæ. Over
each Curia was appointed a priest, who officiated at the sacrifices
of his respective assembly. The sacrifices were called _Curionia_
and the priest _Curio_. He was to be above the age of 50. His morals
were to be pure and unexceptionable, and his body free from all
defects. The _Curiones_ were elected by their respective Curiæ, and
above them was a superior priest called _Curio maximus_, chosen by
all the Curiæ in a public assembly.――――The word _Curia_ was also
applied to public edifices among the Romans. These were generally of
two sorts, divine and civil. In the former were held the assemblies
of the priests, and of every religious order, for the regulation
of religious sacrifices and ceremonies. The other was appointed
for the senate, where they assembled for the despatch of public
business. The Curia was solemnly consecrated by the Augurs, before
a lawful assembly could be convened there. There were three at Rome,
which more particularly claim our attention: _Curia Hostilia_, built
by king Tullus Hostilius: _Curia Pompeii_, where Julius Cæsar was
murdered; and _Curia Augusti_, the palace and court of the emperor
Augustus.――――A town of the Rhœti, now _Coire_, the capital of the
Grisons.
=Curia lex=, _de Comitiis_, was enacted by Marcus Curius Dentatus the
tribune. It forbade the convening of the _Comitia_, for the election
of magistrates, without a previous permission from the senate.
=Curias.= _See:_ Curium.
=Curiatii=, a family of Alba, which was carried to Rome by Tullus
Hostilius, and entered among the patricians. The three Curiatii,
who engaged the Horatii, and lost the victory, were of this family.
_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 3.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 5.
――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 24.
♦=Caius Curio=, an excellent orator, who called Cæsar in full senate,
_Omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem_. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 21, ch. 7.――_Suetonius_, _Cæsar_, ch. 49.――_Cicero_,
_Brutus_.――――His son Caius Scribonius, was tribune of the people,
and an intimate friend of Cæsar. He saved Cæsar’s life as he returned
from the senate house, after the debates concerning the punishments
which ought to be inflicted on the adherents of Catiline. He killed
himself in Africa. _Florus_, bk. 4, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Pompey_ &
_Cæsar_, ch. 49.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 9, ch. 1.――_Lucan_, bk. 4,
li. 268.
♦ ‘Q.’ replaced with ‘Caius’
=Curiosolitæ=, a people among the Celtæ, who inhabited the country
which now forms Lower Brittany. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 2, ch. 34;
bk. 3, ch. 11.
=Curium=, a town of Cyprus, at a small distance from which, in the
south of the island, there is a Cape, which bears the name of
_Curias_. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 113.
=Curius Dentātus Marcus Annius=, a Roman celebrated for his fortitude
and frugality. He was three times consul, and was twice honoured
with a triumph. He obtained decisive victories over the Samnites,
the Sabines, and the Lucanians, and defeated Pyrrhus near Tarentum.
The ambassadors of the Samnites visited his cottage, while he was
boiling some vegetables in an earthen pot, and they attempted to
bribe him by the offer of large presents. He refused their offers
with contempt, and said. “I prefer my earthen pots to all your
vessels of gold and silver, and it is my wish to command those who
are in possession of money, while I am deprived of it, and live in
poverty.” _Plutarch_, _Marcus Cato_.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 12, li.
41.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 15.――――A lieutenant of Cæsar’s cavalry,
to whom six cohorts of Pompey revolted, &c. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_,
♦bk. 1, ch. 24.
♦ Book number omitted in text.
=Curtia=, a patrician family, which migrated with Tatius to Rome.
=Curtīllus=, a celebrated epicure, &c. _Horace_, bk. 2, satire 8,
li. 52.
=Marcus Curtius=, a Roman youth who devoted himself to the gods’
manes for the safety of his country about 360 years B.C. A wide gap,
called afterwards _Curtius lacus_, had suddenly opened in the forum,
and the oracle had said that it never would close before Rome threw
into it whatever it had most precious. Curtius immediately perceived
that no less than a human sacrifice was required. He armed himself,
mounted his horse, and solemnly threw himself into the gulf, which
immediately closed over his head. _Livy_, bk. 7, ch. 6.――_Valerius
Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 6.――――Quintus Rufus. _See:_ Quintus.――――Nicias,
a grammarian, intimate with Pompey, &c. _Suetonius_, _Lives of
the Grammarians_.――――Montanus, an orator and poet under Vespasian.
_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 4.――――Atticus, a Roman knight, who
accompanied Tiberius in his retreat into Campania. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 4.――――Lacus, the gulf into which Curtius leaped.
_See:_ Marcus Curtius.――――Fons, a stream which conveyed water to
Rome from the distance of 40 miles, by an aqueduct so elevated as
to be distributed through all the hills of the city. _Pliny_, bk. 36,
ch. 15.
=Curūlis magistratus=, a state officer at Rome, who had the privilege
of sitting in an ivory chair in public assemblies. The dictator,
the consuls, the censors, the pretors, and ediles, claimed that
privilege, and therefore were called _curules magistratus_. The
senators who had passed through the above-mentioned offices, were
generally carried to the senate-house in ivory chairs, as also all
generals in their triumphant procession to the Capitol. When names
of distinction began to be known among the Romans, the descendants
of curule magistrates were called _nobiles_, the first of a family
who discharged that office were known by the name of _notii_, and
those that had never been in office were called _ignobiles_.
=Cussæi=, a nation of Asia, destroyed by Alexander to appease the
manes of Hephæstion. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.
=Cusus=, a river of Hungary falling into the Danube, now the _Vag_.
=Cutilium=, a town of the Sabines, near a lake which contained a
floating island, and of which the water was of an unusually cold
quality. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 12; bk. 31, ch. 2.――_Seneca_, _Naturales
quaestiones_, bk. 3, ch. 25.――_Livy_, bk. 26, ch. 11.
=Cyamosōrus=, a river of Sicily.
=Cyăne=, a nymph of Syracuse, to whom her father offered violence in
a fit of drunkenness. She dragged her ravisher to the altar, where
she sacrificed him, and killed herself to stop a pestilence, which,
from that circumstance, had already begun to afflict the country.
_Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_――――A nymph of Sicily, who endeavoured
to assist Proserpine when she was carried away by Pluto. The god
changed her into a fountain now called _Pisme_, a few miles from
Syracuse. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 112.――――A town of
Lycia. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 27.――――An inn-keeper, &c. _Juvenal_,
satire 8, li. 162.
=Cyăneæ=, now _the Pavorane_, two rugged islands at the entrance
of the Euxine sea, about 20 stadia from the mouth of the Thracian
Bosphorus. One of them is on the side of Asia, and the other on the
European coast, and, according to Strabo, there is only a space of
20 furlongs between them. The waves of the sea, which continually
break against them with a violent noise, fill the air with a
darkening foam, and render the passage extremely dangerous. The
ancients supposed that these islands floated, and even sometimes
united to crush vessels into pieces when they passed through the
straits. This tradition arose from their appearing, like all other
objects, to draw nearer when navigators approached them. They were
sometimes called _Symplegades_ and _Planetæ_. Their true situation
and form was first explored and ascertained by the Argonauts.
_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 12.――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 85.――_Apollonius_,
bk. 2, lis. 317 & 600.――_Lycophron_, li. 1285.――_Strabo_, bks. 1 &
3.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 1, poem 9, li. 34.
=Cyanee= and =Cyanea=, a daughter of the Mæander, mother of Byblis
and Caunus by Miletus, Apollo’s son. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9,
li. 451.
=Cyaneus=, a large river of Colchis.
=Cyanippe=, a daughter of Adrastus.
=Cyanippus=, a Syracusan, who derided the orgies of Bacchus, for
which impiety the god so inebriated him, that he offered violence
to his daughter Cyane, who sacrificed him on the altar. _Plutarch_,
_Parallela minora_.――――A Thessalian, whose wife met with the same
fate as Procris. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.
=Cyaraxes=, or =Cyaxares=, son of Phraortes, was king of Media and
Persia. He bravely defended his kingdom, which the Scythians had
invaded. He made war against Alyattes king of Lydia, and subjected
to his power all Asia beyond the river Halys. He died after a reign
of 40 years, B.C. 585. _Diodorus_, bk. 2.――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, chs.
73 & 103.――――Another prince, supposed by some to be the same as
Darius the Mede. He was the son of Astyages king of Media. He added
seven provinces to his father’s dominions, and made war against the
Assyrians, whom Cyrus favoured. _Xenophon_, _Cyropædia_, bk. 1.
=Cybēbe=, a name of Cybele, from ♦κυβηβειν, because in the celebration
of her festivals men were driven to madness.
♦ ‘κυβμβειν’ replaced with ‘κυβηβειν’
=Cybĕle=, a goddess, daughter of Cœlus and Terra, and wife of Saturn.
She is supposed to be the same as Ceres, Rhea, Ops, Vesta, Bona
Mater, Magna Mater, Berecynthia, Dindymene, &c. According to Diodorus,
she was the daughter of a Lydian prince called Menos, by his wife
Dindymene, and he adds, that as soon as she was born she was exposed
on a mountain. She was preserved and suckled by some of the wild
beasts of the forest, and received the name of Cybele from the
mountain where her life had been preserved. When she returned to her
father’s court, she had an intrigue with Atys, a beautiful youth,
whom her father mutilated, &c. All the mythologists are unanimous
in mentioning the amours of Atys and Cybele. The partiality of the
goddess for Atys seems to arise from his having first introduced
her worship in Phrygia. She enjoined him perpetual celibacy, and
the violation of his promise was expiated by voluntary mutilation.
In Phrygia the festivals of Cybele were observed with the greatest
solemnity. Her priests, called Corybantes, Galli, &c., were not
admitted in the service of the goddess without a previous mutilation.
In the celebration of the festivals, they imitated the manners of
madmen, and filled the air with dreadful shrieks and howlings, mixed
with the confused noise of drums, tabrets, bucklers, and spears.
This was in commemoration of the sorrow of Cybele for the loss of
her favourite Atys. Cybele was generally represented as a robust
woman, far advanced in her pregnancy, to intimate the fecundity
of the earth. She held keys in her hand, and her head was crowned
with rising turrets, and sometimes with the leaves of an oak. She
sometimes appears riding in a chariot drawn by two tame lions; Atys
follows by her side, carrying a ball in his hand, and supporting
himself upon a fir tree, which is sacred to the goddess. Sometimes
Cybele is represented with a sceptre in her hand, with her head
covered with a tower. She is also seen with many breasts, to show
that the earth gives aliments to all living creatures; and she
generally carries two lions under her arms. From Phrygia the worship
of Cybele passed into Greece, and was solemnly established at
Eleusis, under the name of the Eleusinian mysteries of Ceres. The
Romans, by order of the Sibylline books, brought the statue of the
goddess from Pessinus into Italy; and when the ship which carried
it had run on a shallow bank of the Tiber, the virtue and innocence
of Claudia were vindicated in removing it with her girdle. It is
supposed that the mysteries of Cybele were first known about 1580
years B.C. The Romans were particularly superstitious in washing
every year, on the 6th of the calends of April, the shrine of this
goddess in the waters of the river Almon. There prevailed many
obscenities in the observation of the festivals, and the priests
themselves were the most eager to use indecent expressions, and to
show their unbounded licentiousness by the impurity of their actions.
_See:_ Atys, Eleusis, Rhea, Corybantes, Galli, &c. _Augustine_,
_City of God_, &c.――_Lactantius._――_Lucian_, _De Syria Dea_.
――_Diodorus_, bk. 3.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 617; bk. 10,
li. 252.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 566.――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 4, lis.
210 & 361.――_Plutarch_, _de Garrulitate_.――_Cicero_, _Letters to
Atticus_.――_Cælius_, _Rhodiginus_, ♦bk. 18, ch. 17, &c.
♦ ‘8’ replaced with ‘18’
=Cybĕle= and =Cybela=, a town of Phrygia. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.
=Cybĕlus=, a mountain of Phrygia, where Cybele was worshipped.
=Cy̆bĭra=, a town of Phrygia, whence Cybiraticus. _Horace_, bk. 1,
ltr. 6, li. 33.
=Cybistria=, a town of Cappadocia. _Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_,
bk. 15.
=Cycesium=, a town of Peloponnesus, near Pisa.
=Cychreus=, a son of Neptune and Salamis. After death he was honoured
as a god in Salamis and Attica. As he left no children, he made
Telamon his successor, because he had freed the country from
a monstrous serpent. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 35.――_Plutarch_,
_Theseus_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.
=Cyclădes=, a name given to certain islands of the Ægean sea, those
particularly that surround Delos as with a circle; whence the name
(κυκλος, _circulus_). They were about 53 in number, the principal
of which were Ceos, Naxos, Andros, Paros, Melos, Seriphos, Gyarus,
Tenedos, &c. The Cyclades were reduced under the power of Athens by
Miltiades; but during the invasion of Greece by the Persians, they
revolted from their ancient and natural allies. _Cornelius Nepos_,
_Miltiades_, ch. 2.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.
――_Ptolemy_, bk. 3, ch. 15.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Dionysius Periegeta._
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 64.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3,
li. 127; bk. 8, li. 692.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 4, li. 247.
=Cyclōpes=, a certain race of men of gigantic stature, supposed to be
the sons of Cœlus and Terra. They had but one eye, in the middle of
the forehead; whence their name (κυκλος, _circulus_, ὠψ, _oculus_).
They were three in number, according to Hesiod, called Arges,
Brontes, and Steropes. Their number was greater according to other
mythologists, and in the age of Ulysses, Polyphemus was their king.
_See:_ Polyphemus. They inhabited the western parts of the island
of Sicily; and because they were uncivilized in their manners, the
poets speak of them as men-eaters. The tradition of their having
only one eye originates from their custom of wearing small bucklers
of steel which covered their faces, and had a small aperture in the
middle, which corresponded exactly to the eye. From their vicinity
to mount Ætna, they have been supposed to be the workmen of Vulcan,
and to have fabricated the thunderbolts of Jupiter. The most solid
walls and impregnable fortresses were said, among the ancients, to
be the work of the Cyclops, to render them more respectable; and we
find that Jupiter was armed with what they had fabricated, and that
the shield of Pluto, and the trident of Neptune, were the produce of
their labour. The Cyclops were reckoned among the gods, and we find
a temple dedicated to their service at Corinth, where sacrifices
were solemnly offered. Apollo destroyed them all, because they had
made the thunderbolts of Jupiter, with which his son Æsculapius had
been killed. From the different accounts given of the Cyclops by the
ancients, it may be concluded that they were all the same people,
to whom various functions have been attributed, which cannot be
reconciled one to the other, without drawing the pencil of fiction
or mythology. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, chs. 1 & 2.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_,
bks. 1 & 9.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 140.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_,
poem 1, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 170;
_Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 630; bk. 8, li. 418, &c.; bk. 11, li. 263.
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 780; bk. 14, li. 249.――――A
people of Asia.
=Cycnus=, a son of Mars by Pelopea, killed by Hercules. The manner of
his death provoked Mars to such a degree that he resolved severely
to punish his murderer, but he was prevented by the thunderbolts of
Jupiter. _Hyginus_, fables 31 & 261.――_Hesiod_, _Shield of Heracles_.
――――A son of Neptune, invulnerable in every part of his body.
Achilles fought against him; but when he saw that his darts were of
no effect, he threw him on the ground and smothered him. He stripped
him of his armour, and saw him suddenly changed into a bird of the
same name. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, fable 3.――――A son of
Hyrie, changed into a swan.――――A son of Sthenelus king of Liguria.
He was deeply afflicted at the death of his friend and relation
Phaeton, and in the midst of his lamentations he was metamorphosed
into a swan. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 367.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 189.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 30.――――A horse’s
name. _Statius_, bk. 6, _Thebiad_ li. 524.
=Cydas=, a profligate Cretan, made judge at Rome by Antony. _Cicero_,
_Philippics_, speeches 5 & 8.
=Cydias=, an Athenian of great valour, &c. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 21.
――――A painter who made a painting of the Argonauts. This celebrated
piece was bought by the orator Hortensius, for 164 talents. _Pliny_,
bk. 34.
=Cydippe=, the wife of Anaxilaus, &c. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 165.
――――The mother of Cleobis and Biton. _See:_ Cleobis.――――A girl
beloved by Acontius. _See:_ Acontius.――――One of Cyrene’s attendants.
_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 329.
=Cydnus=, a river of Cilicia, near Tarsus, where Alexander bathed
when covered with sweat. The consequences proved almost fatal to
the monarch. _Curtius_, bk. 3, ch. 4.――_Justin_, bk. 11, ch. 8.
=Cydon=, a friend of Turnus against Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10,
li. 335.
=Cydon= and =Cydonia=, now _Canea_, a town of Crete, built by a colony
from Samos. It was supposed that Minos generally resided there.
Hence _Cydoneus_. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 22.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 858.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 2, li. 109.――_Livy_,
bk. 37, ch. 60.――_Lucan_, bk. 7, li. 229.
=Cydonia=, an island opposite Lesbos. _Pliny_, bks. 2 & 4.
=Cydrara=, a city of Phrygia. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 30.
=Cydrolāus=, a man who led a colony to Samos. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.
=Cygnus.= _See:_ Cycnus.
=Cylabus=, a place near Argos in Peloponnesus. ♦_Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.
♦ ‘Piut.’ replaced with ‘Plutarch’
=Cylbiani=, mountains of Phrygia where the Gayster takes its rise.
_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.
=Cylices=, a people among the Illyrians. There was in their country a
monument in honour of Cadmus. _Athenæus._
=Cylindus=, a son of Phryxus and Calliope.
=Cyllabaris=, a public place for exercises at Argos, where was a
statue of Minerva. _Pausanias_, _Corinthia_.
=Cyllabărus=, a gallant of the wife of Diomedes, &c.
=Cyllărus=, the most beautiful of all the Centaurs, passionately
fond of Hylonome. They perished both at the same time. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 408.――――A celebrated horse of Pollux or
of Castor, according to Seneca. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 90.
=Cyllen=, a son of Elatus. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 4.