CHI′RON, the centaur who taught Achilles hunting, music, and the use of
medicinal herbs. Jupiter placed him amongst the stars, where he appears
as Sagittarius the Archer.
CHLO′RIS. The Greek name of Flora, the goddess of flowers.
CHOU. An Egyptian god corresponding to the Roman Hercules.
CHRO′NOS. Time, the Grecian name of Saturn.
CIL′LAROS, see Cyllaros.
CIR′CE, daughter of the Sun. The knowledge of poisonous herbs enabled
her to destroy her husband, the King of the Sarmatians, for which act
she was banished. When Ulysses landed at Æcea, where she lived, she
turned all his followers into swine.
CISSE′TA. The name of one of Actæon’s hounds.
CITHER′IDES. A name of the Muses, from Mount Citheron.
CLI′O. One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She
presided over history.
CLOACI′NA. The Roman goddess of sewers.
CLO′THO was one of the Fates. She was present at births, and held
the distaff from which was spun the thread of life. See Atropos and
Lachesis.
CLOWNS OF LY′CIA, THE, were changed into frogs by Latona, because they
refused to allow her to drink at one of their streamlets.
CLU′ACI′NA. A name of Venus, given to her at the time of the
reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines, which was ratified near a
statue of the goddess.
CLY′TEMNES′TRA, wife of Agamemnon, slew her husband and married
Ægisthus. She attempted to kill her son Orestes, but he was delivered
by his sister Electra, who sent him away to Strophius. He afterwards
returned and slew both Clytemnestra and Ægisthus.
CLYT′IE. A nymph who got herself changed into a sunflower because her
love of Apollo was unrequited. In the form of this flower she is still
supposed to be turning towards Sol, a name of Apollo.
CNEPH. In Egyptian mythology the creator of the universe.
COCY′TUS, the river of Lamentation. One of the five rivers of the
infernal regions.
“Infernal rivers that disgorge
Into the burning lake their baleful streams.
... Cocytus, named of lamentation loud,
Heard on the rueful stream.”