)
extracts, and that the Roman jurists frequently L.
extracts, and that the Roman jurists frequently L.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Caesarii, in B.
C.
47.
(Cic.
ad Fam.
xiii.
11, 12.
)
Episc. Arelatensis, a Cypriano, ejus Discipulo, et
5. P. Caesius, a Roman eques of Ravenna, re-
Messiano Presb. et Stephano Diac. conscripta dua ceived the Roman franchise from Cn. Pompeius,
bus libris, in the Vilae SS. of Surius, 27 August. the father of Pompey the Great. (Cic. pro Balb.
p. 284. See also Dissertatio de Vita ct Scriptis 22. ) There is a letter of Cicero (ad Fam. xlii. 51)
S. Caesarii, Arelatensis Archicp. , by Oudin in his addressed to P. Caesius (B. C. 47), in which Cicero
Comment. de Scriptt. Eccles. vol. i. p. 1339 ; in ad recommends to him his friend P. Messienus. From
dition to which, Funccius, De Inerti et Decrepita the manner in which Cicero there speaks (pro
Senectute Linguae Latinue, cap. vi. Sviii. ; and Baehr, nostra et pro paterna amicitia), it would almost
Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, Suppl. vol. ii.
seem as if there was some mistake in the praeno-
P. 425. )
(W. R. ] men, and as if the letter was addressed to M.
CAESENNIUS, the name of a noble Etruscan Caesius of Arpinum. But it may be, that there
family at Tarquinii, two members of wbich are men- had existed a friendship between Cicero and the
tioned by Cicero, namely, P. Caesennius and Cae- father of Caesius, of which beyond this allusion
sennia, first the wife of M. Fulcinius, and after- nothing is known.
wards of A. Caecina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 4, 6, 10. )
6. Sex. Caesius, a Roman eques, who is men-
The name is found in sepulchral inscriptions. tioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 28) as a man of great
(Müller, Etrusker, i. p. 433. )
honesty and integrity.
[L. S. )
CAESENNIUS LENTO. (LENTO. ]
T. CAE'SIUS, a jurist, one of the disciples of
CAESE'NNIUS PAETUS. [Paetus. ]
Servius Sulpicius, the eminent friend of Cicero.
C. CAE'SETIUS, a Roman knight, who en Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 6. un. Ø 44) enumerates
treated Caesar to pardon Q. Ligarius. (Cic
. pro ten disciples of Servius, among whom T. Caesius
Lig. 11. )
is mentioned, in a passage not free from the inac-
P. CAESE'TIUS, the quaestor of C. Verres. curacy of expression which pervades the whole
(Cic. Verr. iv. 65, v. 25. )
title De Origine Juris. His words are these :
CAESETIUS FLAVUS. [Flavus. ] “ Ab hoc (Servio) plurimi profecerunt: fere tamen
CAESEʻTIUS RUFUS. (Rufus. )
hi libros conscripserunt : ALFENUS Varus, A.
CAE'SIA, a surname of Minerva, a translation Ofilius, T. CAESIUS, AUFIDIUS Tucca, AUFIDIUS
of the Greek ghavkat. (Terent. Heaut. v. 5, NAMUSA, Flavius PRISCUS, Ateis Pacuvius,
18; Cic. de Nat. Deor. i. 30. )
[L. S. ] LABEO ANTISTIUS, Labeonis Antistii pater, CINNA,
CAEʻSIA GENS, plebeian, does not occur till Publicius Gellius. Ex his decem libros octo
towards the end of the republic. (Caesius. ) conscripserunt, quorum omnes qui fuerunt libri
On the following coin of this gens, the obverse digesti sunt ab Aufidio Namusa in centum quadra-
represents the head of a youthful god brandish- ginta libros. " It is not clear from this account
ing an arrow or spear with three points, who whether (according to the usual interpretation of
is usually supposed from the following passage of the passage) only eight of the ten were authors, or
A. Gellius (v. 12) to be Apollo Veioris : “Simu- whether (as appears to be the more correct inter-
lacrum dei Veiovis sagittas tenet, quae sunt pretation) all the ten wrote books, but not more
videlicet paratae ad nocendum. Quapropter eum
than eight wrote books which were digested by
deum plerique Apollinem esse dixerunt. ” The Aufidius Namusa. In the computation of the
two men on the reverse are Lares : between them eight, it is probable that the compiler himself was
stands a dog, and above them the head of Vulcan not included. T. Caesius is nowhere else expressly
with a forceps. (Eckhel, v. p. 156, &c. )
mentioned in the Digest, but “ Ofilius, Cascellius,
et Serrü auditorcs, are cited Dig. 33. tit. 4. s. 6.
§ 1, and the phrase Servii auditores occurs also
Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12. pr. , and Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12,
§ 6. In Dig. 39. tit. 3. s. 1. $ 6, where Serviz
arctores is the reading of the Florentine manu-
script of the Digest, Servii auditores has been pro-
posed as a conjectural emendation. Under these
names it has been supposed that the eight disciples
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358
CAESONINUS.
CAIETA.
a
of Servius, or rather Namusa's Digest of their M. CAESO'NIUS, one of the judices at Rome,
works, is referred to. If so, it is likely that the an upright man, who displayed his integrity in the
eight included T. Caesius, and did not include inquiry into the murder of Cluentius, B. c. 74,
A. Ofilius. Dirksen (Beitraege zur Kunde des when C. Junius presided over the court.
He was
Roem. Rechts, p. 23, n. 52, et p. 329), who thinks aedile elect with Cicero in B. c. 70, and conse-
this supposition unnecessary, does not, in our quently would not have been able to act as judex
opinion, shake its probability. Gellius (vi. 5) in the following year, as a magistrate was not
quotes the words of a treaty between the Romans allowed to discharge the duties of judex during his
and Carthaginians from Alfenus,“ in libro Diges- year of office. This was one reason among others
torum trigesimo et quarto, Conjectaneorum [al. why the friends of Verres were anxious to post-
Conlectaneorum) autem secundo. ” As it is known pone his trial till B. C. 69. The praetorship of
from the Florentine Index, that Alfenus wrote Caesonius is not mentioned, but he must have ob-
forty books Digestorum, and as no other work of tained it in the same year as Cicero, namely, B. C.
his is elsewhere mentioned, it has been supposed 06, as Cicero writes to Atticus in 65, that there was
that the Conjectanea or Conlectanea cited by Gel- some talk of Caesonius becoming a candidate with
lius is identical with the compilation of Namusa him for the consulship. (Cic. Verr. Act. i. 10;
in which were digested the works of Servii audi- Pseudo-Ascon. in loc. ; Cic. ad Att. i. 1. ) This
tores. It must be observed, however, that the Caesonius is probably the one whom Cicero speaks
Florentine Index ordinarily enumerates those works of in B. C. 45. (Ad Att. xii. 11. )
only from which the compiler of the Digest made CAESO'NIUS MAʼXIMUS. [MAXIMUS.
)
extracts, and that the Roman jurists frequently L. CAESULE'NUS, a Roman orator, who was
inserted the same passages verbatim in different already an old man, when Cicero heard him.
treatises. That the latter practice was common Cicero (Brut. 34) calls him a vulgar man, and
may be proved by glancing at the inscriptions of adds, that he never heard any one who was more
the fragments and the formulae of citation, as col- skilful in drawing suspicions upon persons, and in
lected in the valuable treatise of Ant. Augustinus, making them out to be criminals. He appears to
de Nominibus Propriis Pandectarum.
For ex-
have been one of the many low persons of those
ample, in Dig. 4. tit. 4. 6. 3. § 1, Ulpian cites times, with whom accusation was a regular busi-
Celsus, “ Epistolarum libro undecimo et Digesto- ness.
[L. S. ]
rum secundo. ” (Bertrandi, Bío. Nouinv, ii. 13; CAETROŠNIUS, legate of the first legion
Guil. Grotii, Vitae JCtorum, i. 11. $ 9; Zimmern, in Germany at the accession of Tiberius in A. D.
R. R. G. i. $ 79. )
(J. T. G. ] 14. A mutiny had broken out among the soldiers,
CAE'SIUS BASSUS. [Bassus. ]
but they soon repented, and brought their ring-
CAE'SIUS CORDUS. (CORDUS. ]
leaders in chains before C. Caetronius, who tried
CAE'SIUS NASI'CA. (NASICA. ]
and punished them in a manner which had never
CAE'SIUS TAURI'NUS. [TAURINUS. ] been adopted before, and must be considered as an
CAESOʻNIA, or according to Dion Cassius (lix. usurpation of the soldiery. The legions (the first
23), MILONIA CAESONIA, was at first the and twentieth) met with drawn swords and formed
mistress and afterwards the wife of the emperor a sort of popular assembly. The accused indivi-
Caligula. She was neither handsome nor young dual was led to some elevated place, so as to be
when Caligula fell in love with her; but she was a seen by all, and when the multitude declared him
woman of the greatest licentiousness, and, at the guilty, he was forth with put to death. This sort
time when her intimacy with Caligula began, she was of court-martial was looked upon in later times as
already mother of three daughters by another man. a welcome precedent. (Tacit. Ann. i. 44; Ammian.
Caligula was then married to Lollia Paullina, Marc. xxix. 5. )
(L. S. ]
whom however he divorced in order to marry CAFO or CAPHO, a centurion and one of
Caesonia, who was with child by him, A. D. 38. Caesar's veteran soldiers, was a zealous supporter
According to Suetonius (Cal. 25) Caligula married of Antony after the murder of Caesar in B. C. 44,
her on the same day that she was delivered of a and is accordingly frequently denounced by Cicero.
daughter (Julia Drusilla); whereas, according to (Phil
. viii. 3, 9, x. 10, xi. 5. )
Dion Cassius, this daughter was born one month CAIANUS or GAIA'NUS (Païavós), a Greek
after the marriage. Caesonia contrived to preserve rhetorician and sophist, was a native of Arabia
the attachment of her imperial husband down to and a disciple of Apsines and Gadara, and he ac-
the end of his life (Suet. Cal
. 33, 38; Dion. Cass. cordingly lived in the reign of the emperors Maxi-
lix. 28); but she is said to have effected this by mus and Gordianus. He taught rhetoric at Berytus,
love-potions, which she gave him to drink, and to and wrote several works, such as On Syntax (Tepl
which some persons attributed the unsettled state Eurtáčews), in five books, a System of Rhetoric
of Caligula's mental powers during the latter years (Téxm 'PnTopik), and Declamations (Méretai);
of his life. Caesonia and her daughter were put but no fragments of these works are now extant.
to death on the same day that Caligula was mur- (Suidas, s. v. ražavós ; Eudoc. p. 100. ) [L. S. ]
dered, A. D. 41. (Suet. Cal. 59; Dion Cass. lix. CAICUS (Kaïkós), two mythical personages,
29; Joseph. Ant. Jud. xix. 2. & 4. ) [L. S. ] one a son of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod, Theog.
CAESONI'NUS. [Piso. ]
343), and the other a son of Hermes and Ocyrrhoë,
CAESONI'NUS, SUILIUS, was one of the who threw himself into the rirer Astraeus, hence-
parties accused A. D. 48, when Messalina, the wife forth called Caicus. (Plut. de Fluv. 21. ) [L. S. ]
of Claudius, went so far in contempt of her hus- CAIEʻTA, according to some accounts, the nurse
band as to marry the young eques, C. Silius. Ta of Aeneas (Virg. Aen. vii. 1; Ov. Mct. xiv. 442),
citus says, that Caesoninus saved his life through and, according to others, the nurse of Creusa or
his vices, and that on the occasion of Messalina's Ascanius. (Serf. ad Aen. I. c. ) The promontory
marriage he disgraced himself in the basest man- of Caieta, as well as the port and town of this
per. (Tac. Ann. xi. 36. )
[L. S. ] name on the western coast of Italy, were believed
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CALAMIS.
559
CALAS.
to have been called after her. (Klausen, Aeneas u. tioned as works of Calamis. Besides the statues
d. Penat. p. 1044, &c. )
[L. S. ) of gods and mortals he also represented animals,
CAIUS or GAIUS (rážos). 1. The jurist. especially horses, for which he was very celebrated.
[Gaius. ]
(Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 6. 19. ) Cicero gives the
2. A Platonic philosopher who is mentioned as following opinion of the style of Calamis, which
an author by Porphyry (Vit. Plot. 14), but of his was probably borrowed from the Greck authors :-
writings nothing is known. Galen (vol. vi. p. 532, Quis enim eorum, qui haec minora animadver-
ed. Paris) states, that he heard the disciples of tunt, non intelligit, Canachi signa rigidiora esse,
Caius, from which we must infer that Caius lived quam ut imitentur veritatem ? Calamnidis dura
some time before Galen.
illa quidem, sed tarnen molliora quam Canachi,
3. A Greek rhetorician of uncertain date. Sta nondum Myronis satis ad veritatem adducta. "
baeus has preserved the titles of, and given extracts (Brut. 18; comp. Quintil. xii. 10. ) (W. I. )
from, six of his declamations. (Stobaeus, Florileg. CALAMI'TES (Kalauitns), an Attic hero,
vol. i. pp. 89, 266, vol. iii. pp. 3, 29, 56, &c. , 104, who is mentioned only by Demosthenes (De Co-
135, 305, &c. )
ron. p. 270), and is otherwise entirely unknown.
4. A presbyter of the church of Rome, who lived Comp. Hesych. and Suid. s. r. Kalauítns. ) The
about a. d. 310. He was at a later time elected commentators on Demosthenes have endeavoured in
bishop of the gentiles, which probably means, that various ways to gain a definite notion of Calamites:
he received a commission as a missionary to some some think that Calamites is a false reading for
heathen people, and the power of superintending Cyamites, and others that the name is a mere epi-
the churches that might be planted among them. thet, and that lat pós is understood.
Episc. Arelatensis, a Cypriano, ejus Discipulo, et
5. P. Caesius, a Roman eques of Ravenna, re-
Messiano Presb. et Stephano Diac. conscripta dua ceived the Roman franchise from Cn. Pompeius,
bus libris, in the Vilae SS. of Surius, 27 August. the father of Pompey the Great. (Cic. pro Balb.
p. 284. See also Dissertatio de Vita ct Scriptis 22. ) There is a letter of Cicero (ad Fam. xlii. 51)
S. Caesarii, Arelatensis Archicp. , by Oudin in his addressed to P. Caesius (B. C. 47), in which Cicero
Comment. de Scriptt. Eccles. vol. i. p. 1339 ; in ad recommends to him his friend P. Messienus. From
dition to which, Funccius, De Inerti et Decrepita the manner in which Cicero there speaks (pro
Senectute Linguae Latinue, cap. vi. Sviii. ; and Baehr, nostra et pro paterna amicitia), it would almost
Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, Suppl. vol. ii.
seem as if there was some mistake in the praeno-
P. 425. )
(W. R. ] men, and as if the letter was addressed to M.
CAESENNIUS, the name of a noble Etruscan Caesius of Arpinum. But it may be, that there
family at Tarquinii, two members of wbich are men- had existed a friendship between Cicero and the
tioned by Cicero, namely, P. Caesennius and Cae- father of Caesius, of which beyond this allusion
sennia, first the wife of M. Fulcinius, and after- nothing is known.
wards of A. Caecina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 4, 6, 10. )
6. Sex. Caesius, a Roman eques, who is men-
The name is found in sepulchral inscriptions. tioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 28) as a man of great
(Müller, Etrusker, i. p. 433. )
honesty and integrity.
[L. S. )
CAESENNIUS LENTO. (LENTO. ]
T. CAE'SIUS, a jurist, one of the disciples of
CAESE'NNIUS PAETUS. [Paetus. ]
Servius Sulpicius, the eminent friend of Cicero.
C. CAE'SETIUS, a Roman knight, who en Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 6. un. Ø 44) enumerates
treated Caesar to pardon Q. Ligarius. (Cic
. pro ten disciples of Servius, among whom T. Caesius
Lig. 11. )
is mentioned, in a passage not free from the inac-
P. CAESE'TIUS, the quaestor of C. Verres. curacy of expression which pervades the whole
(Cic. Verr. iv. 65, v. 25. )
title De Origine Juris. His words are these :
CAESETIUS FLAVUS. [Flavus. ] “ Ab hoc (Servio) plurimi profecerunt: fere tamen
CAESEʻTIUS RUFUS. (Rufus. )
hi libros conscripserunt : ALFENUS Varus, A.
CAE'SIA, a surname of Minerva, a translation Ofilius, T. CAESIUS, AUFIDIUS Tucca, AUFIDIUS
of the Greek ghavkat. (Terent. Heaut. v. 5, NAMUSA, Flavius PRISCUS, Ateis Pacuvius,
18; Cic. de Nat. Deor. i. 30. )
[L. S. ] LABEO ANTISTIUS, Labeonis Antistii pater, CINNA,
CAEʻSIA GENS, plebeian, does not occur till Publicius Gellius. Ex his decem libros octo
towards the end of the republic. (Caesius. ) conscripserunt, quorum omnes qui fuerunt libri
On the following coin of this gens, the obverse digesti sunt ab Aufidio Namusa in centum quadra-
represents the head of a youthful god brandish- ginta libros. " It is not clear from this account
ing an arrow or spear with three points, who whether (according to the usual interpretation of
is usually supposed from the following passage of the passage) only eight of the ten were authors, or
A. Gellius (v. 12) to be Apollo Veioris : “Simu- whether (as appears to be the more correct inter-
lacrum dei Veiovis sagittas tenet, quae sunt pretation) all the ten wrote books, but not more
videlicet paratae ad nocendum. Quapropter eum
than eight wrote books which were digested by
deum plerique Apollinem esse dixerunt. ” The Aufidius Namusa. In the computation of the
two men on the reverse are Lares : between them eight, it is probable that the compiler himself was
stands a dog, and above them the head of Vulcan not included. T. Caesius is nowhere else expressly
with a forceps. (Eckhel, v. p. 156, &c. )
mentioned in the Digest, but “ Ofilius, Cascellius,
et Serrü auditorcs, are cited Dig. 33. tit. 4. s. 6.
§ 1, and the phrase Servii auditores occurs also
Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12. pr. , and Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12,
§ 6. In Dig. 39. tit. 3. s. 1. $ 6, where Serviz
arctores is the reading of the Florentine manu-
script of the Digest, Servii auditores has been pro-
posed as a conjectural emendation. Under these
names it has been supposed that the eight disciples
## p. 558 (#578) ############################################
358
CAESONINUS.
CAIETA.
a
of Servius, or rather Namusa's Digest of their M. CAESO'NIUS, one of the judices at Rome,
works, is referred to. If so, it is likely that the an upright man, who displayed his integrity in the
eight included T. Caesius, and did not include inquiry into the murder of Cluentius, B. c. 74,
A. Ofilius. Dirksen (Beitraege zur Kunde des when C. Junius presided over the court.
He was
Roem. Rechts, p. 23, n. 52, et p. 329), who thinks aedile elect with Cicero in B. c. 70, and conse-
this supposition unnecessary, does not, in our quently would not have been able to act as judex
opinion, shake its probability. Gellius (vi. 5) in the following year, as a magistrate was not
quotes the words of a treaty between the Romans allowed to discharge the duties of judex during his
and Carthaginians from Alfenus,“ in libro Diges- year of office. This was one reason among others
torum trigesimo et quarto, Conjectaneorum [al. why the friends of Verres were anxious to post-
Conlectaneorum) autem secundo. ” As it is known pone his trial till B. C. 69. The praetorship of
from the Florentine Index, that Alfenus wrote Caesonius is not mentioned, but he must have ob-
forty books Digestorum, and as no other work of tained it in the same year as Cicero, namely, B. C.
his is elsewhere mentioned, it has been supposed 06, as Cicero writes to Atticus in 65, that there was
that the Conjectanea or Conlectanea cited by Gel- some talk of Caesonius becoming a candidate with
lius is identical with the compilation of Namusa him for the consulship. (Cic. Verr. Act. i. 10;
in which were digested the works of Servii audi- Pseudo-Ascon. in loc. ; Cic. ad Att. i. 1. ) This
tores. It must be observed, however, that the Caesonius is probably the one whom Cicero speaks
Florentine Index ordinarily enumerates those works of in B. C. 45. (Ad Att. xii. 11. )
only from which the compiler of the Digest made CAESO'NIUS MAʼXIMUS. [MAXIMUS.
)
extracts, and that the Roman jurists frequently L. CAESULE'NUS, a Roman orator, who was
inserted the same passages verbatim in different already an old man, when Cicero heard him.
treatises. That the latter practice was common Cicero (Brut. 34) calls him a vulgar man, and
may be proved by glancing at the inscriptions of adds, that he never heard any one who was more
the fragments and the formulae of citation, as col- skilful in drawing suspicions upon persons, and in
lected in the valuable treatise of Ant. Augustinus, making them out to be criminals. He appears to
de Nominibus Propriis Pandectarum.
For ex-
have been one of the many low persons of those
ample, in Dig. 4. tit. 4. 6. 3. § 1, Ulpian cites times, with whom accusation was a regular busi-
Celsus, “ Epistolarum libro undecimo et Digesto- ness.
[L. S. ]
rum secundo. ” (Bertrandi, Bío. Nouinv, ii. 13; CAETROŠNIUS, legate of the first legion
Guil. Grotii, Vitae JCtorum, i. 11. $ 9; Zimmern, in Germany at the accession of Tiberius in A. D.
R. R. G. i. $ 79. )
(J. T. G. ] 14. A mutiny had broken out among the soldiers,
CAE'SIUS BASSUS. [Bassus. ]
but they soon repented, and brought their ring-
CAE'SIUS CORDUS. (CORDUS. ]
leaders in chains before C. Caetronius, who tried
CAE'SIUS NASI'CA. (NASICA. ]
and punished them in a manner which had never
CAE'SIUS TAURI'NUS. [TAURINUS. ] been adopted before, and must be considered as an
CAESOʻNIA, or according to Dion Cassius (lix. usurpation of the soldiery. The legions (the first
23), MILONIA CAESONIA, was at first the and twentieth) met with drawn swords and formed
mistress and afterwards the wife of the emperor a sort of popular assembly. The accused indivi-
Caligula. She was neither handsome nor young dual was led to some elevated place, so as to be
when Caligula fell in love with her; but she was a seen by all, and when the multitude declared him
woman of the greatest licentiousness, and, at the guilty, he was forth with put to death. This sort
time when her intimacy with Caligula began, she was of court-martial was looked upon in later times as
already mother of three daughters by another man. a welcome precedent. (Tacit. Ann. i. 44; Ammian.
Caligula was then married to Lollia Paullina, Marc. xxix. 5. )
(L. S. ]
whom however he divorced in order to marry CAFO or CAPHO, a centurion and one of
Caesonia, who was with child by him, A. D. 38. Caesar's veteran soldiers, was a zealous supporter
According to Suetonius (Cal. 25) Caligula married of Antony after the murder of Caesar in B. C. 44,
her on the same day that she was delivered of a and is accordingly frequently denounced by Cicero.
daughter (Julia Drusilla); whereas, according to (Phil
. viii. 3, 9, x. 10, xi. 5. )
Dion Cassius, this daughter was born one month CAIANUS or GAIA'NUS (Païavós), a Greek
after the marriage. Caesonia contrived to preserve rhetorician and sophist, was a native of Arabia
the attachment of her imperial husband down to and a disciple of Apsines and Gadara, and he ac-
the end of his life (Suet. Cal
. 33, 38; Dion. Cass. cordingly lived in the reign of the emperors Maxi-
lix. 28); but she is said to have effected this by mus and Gordianus. He taught rhetoric at Berytus,
love-potions, which she gave him to drink, and to and wrote several works, such as On Syntax (Tepl
which some persons attributed the unsettled state Eurtáčews), in five books, a System of Rhetoric
of Caligula's mental powers during the latter years (Téxm 'PnTopik), and Declamations (Méretai);
of his life. Caesonia and her daughter were put but no fragments of these works are now extant.
to death on the same day that Caligula was mur- (Suidas, s. v. ražavós ; Eudoc. p. 100. ) [L. S. ]
dered, A. D. 41. (Suet. Cal. 59; Dion Cass. lix. CAICUS (Kaïkós), two mythical personages,
29; Joseph. Ant. Jud. xix. 2. & 4. ) [L. S. ] one a son of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod, Theog.
CAESONI'NUS. [Piso. ]
343), and the other a son of Hermes and Ocyrrhoë,
CAESONI'NUS, SUILIUS, was one of the who threw himself into the rirer Astraeus, hence-
parties accused A. D. 48, when Messalina, the wife forth called Caicus. (Plut. de Fluv. 21. ) [L. S. ]
of Claudius, went so far in contempt of her hus- CAIEʻTA, according to some accounts, the nurse
band as to marry the young eques, C. Silius. Ta of Aeneas (Virg. Aen. vii. 1; Ov. Mct. xiv. 442),
citus says, that Caesoninus saved his life through and, according to others, the nurse of Creusa or
his vices, and that on the occasion of Messalina's Ascanius. (Serf. ad Aen. I. c. ) The promontory
marriage he disgraced himself in the basest man- of Caieta, as well as the port and town of this
per. (Tac. Ann. xi. 36. )
[L. S. ] name on the western coast of Italy, were believed
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CALAMIS.
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CALAS.
to have been called after her. (Klausen, Aeneas u. tioned as works of Calamis. Besides the statues
d. Penat. p. 1044, &c. )
[L. S. ) of gods and mortals he also represented animals,
CAIUS or GAIUS (rážos). 1. The jurist. especially horses, for which he was very celebrated.
[Gaius. ]
(Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 6. 19. ) Cicero gives the
2. A Platonic philosopher who is mentioned as following opinion of the style of Calamis, which
an author by Porphyry (Vit. Plot. 14), but of his was probably borrowed from the Greck authors :-
writings nothing is known. Galen (vol. vi. p. 532, Quis enim eorum, qui haec minora animadver-
ed. Paris) states, that he heard the disciples of tunt, non intelligit, Canachi signa rigidiora esse,
Caius, from which we must infer that Caius lived quam ut imitentur veritatem ? Calamnidis dura
some time before Galen.
illa quidem, sed tarnen molliora quam Canachi,
3. A Greek rhetorician of uncertain date. Sta nondum Myronis satis ad veritatem adducta. "
baeus has preserved the titles of, and given extracts (Brut. 18; comp. Quintil. xii. 10. ) (W. I. )
from, six of his declamations. (Stobaeus, Florileg. CALAMI'TES (Kalauitns), an Attic hero,
vol. i. pp. 89, 266, vol. iii. pp. 3, 29, 56, &c. , 104, who is mentioned only by Demosthenes (De Co-
135, 305, &c. )
ron. p. 270), and is otherwise entirely unknown.
4. A presbyter of the church of Rome, who lived Comp. Hesych. and Suid. s. r. Kalauítns. ) The
about a. d. 310. He was at a later time elected commentators on Demosthenes have endeavoured in
bishop of the gentiles, which probably means, that various ways to gain a definite notion of Calamites:
he received a commission as a missionary to some some think that Calamites is a false reading for
heathen people, and the power of superintending Cyamites, and others that the name is a mere epi-
the churches that might be planted among them. thet, and that lat pós is understood.
