his colleagues scized on the
accident
as a proof vi.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
(Paus.
vi.
21.
$ 5.
)
(L. S. )
and a friend and relation of Phaëton. He was CYDO'NIUS DEMETRIUS. (DEMETRIUS. )
the father of Cinyras and Cupauo. While he was CY'LLARUS (Kútnapos), a beautiful centaur,
lamenting the fate of Phaëton on the banks the who was married to Hylonome, and was killed at
Eridanus, he was metamorphosed by Apollo into a the wedding feast of Peirithous. (Ov. Met. xii.
swan, and placed among the stars. (Ov. Met. ii. 393, &c. ) The horse of Castor was likewise called
366, &c. ; Paus. i. 30. $ 3; Serv. ad Àen. x. 189. ) Cyllarus. (Virg. Georg. iii. 90; Val. Flacc. i. 426;
A sixth personage of the name of Cycnus is men- Suidas, s. v. )
[L. S. ]
tioned by Hyginus. (Fab. 97. ) [L. S. ] CYLLEN (Kvaani), a son of Elatus, from
CYDAS (Kúbas), appears to have been a com- whom mount Cyllene in Arcadia was believed to
mon name at Gortyna in Crete. It is written in have received its name. (Paus. viii. 4. & 3. ) [L. S. ]
various wars in MSS. , but Cydas seems to be the CYLLENE (Kuannwn), a nymph, who became
most correct form. (See Drakenborch, ad Lir. the mother of Lycaon by Pelasgus. (Apollod. iii.
xxxiii. 3, slir. 13. )
8. S 1. ) According to others, she was the wife of
1. The commander of 500 of the Cretan Gorty- Lycaon. (Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 13. ) [L. S. ]
nii, joined Quinctius Flamininus in Thessaly in CYLLE'NIUS (Kvarnvios), a surname of Her-
B. c. 197. (Liv. xxxiii. 3. ) This Cydas may be mes, which he derived from mount Cyllene in
the same as the Cydas, the son of Anticalces, who Arcadia, where he had a temple (Paus viii. 17.
was cosnus or supreme magistrate at Gortyna, $1), or from the circumstance of Maia having
when a Roman embassy visited the island about given birth to him on that mountain. (Virg. Aen.
B. C. 184, and composed the differences which viii. 139, &c. )
[L. S. ]
existed between the inhabitants of Gortyna and CYLLE'NIUS (Kvarnvios), the author of two
Cnossis. (Polyb. xxxiii. 15. )
epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal.
2. A Cretan, the friend of Eumenes, wo at- ii. p. 282 ; Jacobs, ii. p. 257), of whom nothing
tempted to negotiate a peace between Eumenes more is known. His name is spelt differently in
## p. 911 (#931) ############################################
CYNAEGEIRUS.
911
CYNOSURA.
were very numerous.
the MSS. of the Anthology, KalAviou, KuaAviou, I lands, hangs on by his teeth, and even in his riu.
Kvinnrios, Kulanviou netiávov. (Jacobs, Anth. tilated state fights desperately with the last men-
(irvec. vol. xiii. p. 878. )
[P. S. )
tioned weapons,
* like a rabid wild beast! "
CILON (Kulwv), an Athenian of noble family (llerod. vi. 114; Suid. s. r. Kuvaiyespos; Just. ii.
and commanding presence, won the prize for the 9; Val. Max. iii. 2. § 22; comp. Sueton. Jul.
deuble course (viavaus) at the Olympic games, in 68. ).
(E. E. )
B. C. 610, and married the daughter of Theagenes, OYVAETIUS. (CINAETH US. ]
tyrant of Memur. Excited apparently and en- CYNANE, CYNA, Or CYNNA (Κυνάνη,
couraged by these advantages, and especially by Kúra, Kúrva), was half-sister to Alexander the
his powerful alliance, he conceived the design of Great, and daughter of Philip by Audata, an
making himself tyrant of Athens, and having con- Illyrian woman. ller father gave her in marriage
sulted the Delpliic oracle on the subject, was to her cousin Amyntas, by whose death she was
enjoined to scize the Acropolis at the principal left a widow in B. c. 336. [AMYNTAS, No. 3. ]
festival of Zeus. Imagining that this must seter, In the following year Alexander promised her
not to the Athenian Acaria (see Dict. of Ant. p. hand, as a reward for his services, to Langarus,
333), but to the Olympic games, at which he had king of the Agrianians, but the intended bride-
50 distinguished himself, he made the attempt Eroom was carried off by sickness. Cynane con-
during the celebration of the latter, and gained tinued unmarried, and employed herself in the
posscssion of the citadel with his partizans, who education of her daughter, Adea or Eurydice,
Here, however, they were whom she is said to bave trained, after the manner
closely besieged, the operations against them of her own education, to martial exercises. When
being conducted, according to Thucydides, by the Arrhidaeus was chosen king, B. C. 323, Cynane
nine archons ; according to Herodotus, by the determined to marry Eurydice to him, and crossed
Prytanes of the Naucrari. (See Dict. of Ant. p. over to Asia accordingly. Her influence was pro-
63%; Arnold's Thucydides, vol. i. Append. iii. p. bably great, and her project alarmed Perdiccas
664. ) At length, pressed by famine, they were and Antipater, the former of whom sent her brother
driven to take refuge at the altar of Athena, whence Alcetas to meet her on her way and put her to
they were induced to withdraw by the archon death. Alcetas did so in defiance of the feelings
Megacles, the Alcmaeonid, on a promise that their of his troops, and Cynane met her doom with an
lives should be spared. But their enemies put undaunted spirit. In B. c. 317, Cassander, after
them to death as soon as they had them in their defeating Olympias, buried Cynane with Eurydice
power, some of them being murdered even at the and Arrhidaeus at Aegae, the royal burying-place.
altar of the Eumenides. Plutarch relates besides (Arr. Anab. i. 5, ap. Phot. p. 70, ed. Bekk. ; Satyr.
that the suppliants, by way of keeping themselves op. Athen. xiii p. 557, c. ; Diod. xix. 52 ; Polyaen.
under the protection of Athena, fastened a line to viii. 60; Perizon. ad Ael. V. 11. xiii. 36. ) [E. E. ]
her statue and held it as they passed from her CYNISCA (Kuvioka), daughter of Archidamus
shrine. When they had reached the temple of 11. king of Sparta, so named after her grandfather
the Eumenides the line broke, and Megacles and Zeuxidamus, who was also called Cyniscus. (Herod.
his colleagues scized on the accident as a proof vi. 71. ) She was the first woman who kept horses
that the goddess had rejected their supplication, for the games, and the first who gained an Olym-
and that they might therefore be massacred in full pian victory. (Paus. iii. 8. $ 1. ) Pausanias men-
accordance with religion. Thucydides and the tions an epigram by an unknown author in her
Scholiast on Aristophanes (Eq. 413) tell us, that honour, which is perhaps the same as the inscrip-
Cylon himself escaped with his brother before the tion he speaks of (vi. 1. $ 2) in his account of her
surrender of his adherents. According to Suidas, monument at Olympia. This was a group of
he was dragged from the altar of the Eumenides, sculpture representing Cynisca with a chariot,
where he had taken refuge, and was murdered. charioteer, and horses, — the work of Apellas.
Herodotus also implies that he was slain with the [APELLAS. ) There were also figures of her borses
rest. His party is said by Plutarch to have re- in brass in the temple of Olympian Zeus (Paus.
covered their strength after his death, and to have v. 12. & 3), and at Sparta she had near the gym-
continued the struggle with the Alcmaeonidae up nasium, called the Platanistas, an heroum. (iii.
to the time of Solon. The date of Cylon's attempt | 15. sl. )
[A. H. C. )
is uncertain. Corsini gives, as a conjecture, B. C. CYNO. [Cyrus. ]
612; while Clinton, also conjecturally, assigns it CYNOBELLI'NUS, one of the kings of Britain
to 620. (Herod. v. 71; Thucyd. i. 126; Suid. s. v. in the reign of Claudius, the capital of whose
Kulúverov ayos ; Plut. Sul. 12; Paus. i. 28, 40, kingdom was Camalodunum. (Colchester or Mal-
(E. E. ) don. ) He was the father of Caractacus, Togo-
CYNA. [CYXANE. ]
dumnus, and Adminius. (Dion Cass. lx. 20, 21;
CYNAEGEI'RUS (Kuvalye:pos), son of Eu- Suet. Cul. 44 ; Oros. vii. 5. )
phorion and brother of the poet Aeschylus, distin- CYNORTES or CYNORTAS (Kuvópons), a
guished himself by his ralour at the battle of son of Amyclas by Diomede, and brother of Hya-
Marathon, B. C. 490. According to Herodotus, cinthus. After the death of his brother Argalus,
when the Persians had fled and were endeavour- he became king of Sparta and father of Oebalus or
ing to escape by sea, Cynaegeirns seized one of of Perieres. His tomb was shown at Sparta not
their ships to keep it back, but fell with his right far from the Scias. (Paus. iii. 1. § 3, 13. $ 1;
hand cut off. The story lost nothing by transmis Apollod. iii. 10. § 3; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest.
sion. The next version related that Cynargeirus, 447. ).
[L. S. ]
on the loss of his right hand, grasped the enemy's CÝNOSLÄRA (Kuvodovká), an Idacan nymph
vessel with his left; and at lengih we arrive at and one of the nurses of Zeus, who placed her
the acme of the ludicrous in the account of Justin. among the stars. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. ii. 2; Arat,
Here the hero, having successively lost both his Phuen. 35 ; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 246. ) [L. S. ]
:
vii. 25. )
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CYPRIANUS.
CYPRIANUS.
CYNTIIA and CY'NTHIUS (Kuvoia and with his clergy concerning various matters of dis-
Kúre. os), surnames respectively of Artemis and cipline, much of his attention being occupied, as
Apollo, which they derived from mount Cynthus the violence of the persecution began to abate, by
in the island of Delos, their birthplace. (Callim. the fierce controversies which arose with regard to
Hymn. in Del. 10; Hor. Carm. i. 21. 2, iii. 28. the readmission of the Lapsi or apostates, who,
12; Lucan, i. 218. )
[L. S. ] according to the form and degree of their guilt,
CYNULCUS. (CANNELUS. )
were designated Sacrificati, or Thurificati, or libel-
CYNUS (Kūvos), a son of Opus, and father of | latici, and were seeking, now that the danger had
Hodoedocus and Larymna, from whom Cynus in passed away, the restoration of their ecclesiastical
Locris derived its name. (Paus. ix. 23. § 4 ; | privileges. Cyprian, although not perfectly con-
Eustath. ad Ilom. p. 277. )
(L. S. ] sistent throughou in his instructions, always ma-
CY NU'RUS (Kúvoupos), a son of Perseus, who nifested a disposition to follow a moderate course ;
is said to have led colonists from Argos into Cymu- and while on the one hand he utterly rejected the
ria, a valley between Argolis and Laconia. (Paus. extreme doctrine of Novatianus, who maintained
ii. 2. $ 3. )
(L. S. ] that the church had no power again to admit the
ÇYPARISSUS (Kurápiocos), a youth of Cea, renegades to her communion, so he was equally
a son of Telephus, was beloved by Apollo and opposed to the laxity of those who were willing to
Zephyrus or Silvanus. When he had inadvertently receive them at once, before they had given evi-
killed his favourite stag, he was seized with immo- dence of their contrition by lengthened penitence,
derate grief, and metamorphosed into a cypress and finally decided that full forgiveness should not
(Ov. Mct. x. 120, &c. ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 64, 680, be extended to any of the offenders until God
Eclog. x. 26, Georg. i. 20. ) Another Cyparissus should have granted peace to his servants. NO-
is mentioned by Eustathius. (Ad Hom. Il. ii. vatus and Felicissimus, taking advantage of these
519. )
[L. S. ] disputes, endeavoured to gain over to their faction
CÝ'PRIA, CYPRIS, CYPRIGENEIA, or many of the impatient and discontented Lapsi.
CYPRO-GENES (Kumpich Kúpis, Kumpuyévela, Noratus actually appointed Felicissimus his deacon
Kuppoyévns), surnames of Aphrodite, who was without the permission or knowledge of his dio-
born in the island of Cyprus, which was also one cesan, who in his turn caused Felicissimus to be
of the principal seats of her worship. (Hom. II. v. excommunicated ; while the latter, far from sub-
458; Pind. 01. i. 120, xi. 125, Pyth. iv. 383; mitting to the sentence, associated with himself
Tibull. iii. 3. 34; Hor. Carm. i. 3. 1. ) (L. S. ] five seditious presbyters, who breaking off in
CYPRIANUS, THA'SCIUS. This cele-open schism, elected Fortunatus, one of their own
brated prelate was a native of Africa, born, al-number, bishop, and ventured to despatch an epis-
though the exact year cannot be ascertained, about tle to Cornelius, bishop of Rome, announcing their
the beginning of the third century. We are not choice. This cabal, however, soon fell to pieces;
acquainted with the particulars of his life as long Cornelius refused to listen to their representations,
as he remained a Gentile ; but it is evident from their supporters gradually dropped off, and their
his writings that he must have been educated with great bond of union was rudely snapped asunder
St. Jerome and Lactantius as by the defection of their great champion, Novatus,
sure us, that he practised the art of oratory, and who, upon his visit to Rome at the commencement
taught rhetoric with distinguished success, and by of A. D. 251, not only ceased to plead the cause of
this or some other honourable occupation he realised the Lapsi, but espoused to the full extent the
considerable wealth. About the year a. D. 246, he views of Novatianus. Scarcely were these trou-
was persuaded to embrace Christianity by the ex- bles happily allaved, and Cyprian once more se-
hortations of Caecilius, an aged presbyter of the curely seated in his chair, when fresh disturbances
church at Carthage, and, assuming the name of the arose in consequence of the acrimonious contest
spiritual patron by whom he had been set free from between Cornelius and Noratianus (CORNELIUS ;
the bondage of Paganism, was henceforward styled NovaTIANUS) for the see of Rome, the former
THASCIUS CAECILIUS CYPRIANUS. At the same finding a warm supporter in the bishop of Carthage,
period he sold all that he had, and distributed the by whose exertions his authority was acknowledged
price among the poor. The popularity acquired by throughout nearly the whole of Africa. In the month
ibis liberality, combined probably with the reputa- of June, A. D. 252, began what is commonly termed
tion he had previously enjoyed, and the pride na- the persecution of Gallus, but which in reality
turally felt in so distinguished a proselyte, secured originated in an unauthorized popular movement
his rapid elevation. In a. D. 247 he was raised excited by the refusal of the Christians to join in
to the rank of a presbyter, and in the course of the the prayers and sacrifices offered up on account of
following year the bishopric of Carthage was forced the deadly pestilence which was devastating the
upon his reluctant acceptance by a large majority various provinces of the Roman empire. On this
of the African clergy, not without strenuous oppo- occasion, as formerly, the mob of Carthage loudly
sition, however, from a small party headed by demanded that Cyprian should be thrown to the
Novatus [Novatus] and Felicissimus, whose ob lions ; but the danger does not appear to have been
stinate resistance and contumacy subsequently imminent, and while in Italy Cornelius was ba-
gave rise to much disorder and violence.
nished to Civita Vecchia, where he died on the
When the persecution of Decius burst forth 14th of September, and his successor Lucius suf-
(a. D. 250), Cyprian, being one of the first marked fered martyrdom a few months afterwards (5th
out as a victim, fled from the storin, in obedience, March, 253), Africa remained comparatively un-
as he tells us (Epist. xiv.
(L. S. )
and a friend and relation of Phaëton. He was CYDO'NIUS DEMETRIUS. (DEMETRIUS. )
the father of Cinyras and Cupauo. While he was CY'LLARUS (Kútnapos), a beautiful centaur,
lamenting the fate of Phaëton on the banks the who was married to Hylonome, and was killed at
Eridanus, he was metamorphosed by Apollo into a the wedding feast of Peirithous. (Ov. Met. xii.
swan, and placed among the stars. (Ov. Met. ii. 393, &c. ) The horse of Castor was likewise called
366, &c. ; Paus. i. 30. $ 3; Serv. ad Àen. x. 189. ) Cyllarus. (Virg. Georg. iii. 90; Val. Flacc. i. 426;
A sixth personage of the name of Cycnus is men- Suidas, s. v. )
[L. S. ]
tioned by Hyginus. (Fab. 97. ) [L. S. ] CYLLEN (Kvaani), a son of Elatus, from
CYDAS (Kúbas), appears to have been a com- whom mount Cyllene in Arcadia was believed to
mon name at Gortyna in Crete. It is written in have received its name. (Paus. viii. 4. & 3. ) [L. S. ]
various wars in MSS. , but Cydas seems to be the CYLLENE (Kuannwn), a nymph, who became
most correct form. (See Drakenborch, ad Lir. the mother of Lycaon by Pelasgus. (Apollod. iii.
xxxiii. 3, slir. 13. )
8. S 1. ) According to others, she was the wife of
1. The commander of 500 of the Cretan Gorty- Lycaon. (Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 13. ) [L. S. ]
nii, joined Quinctius Flamininus in Thessaly in CYLLE'NIUS (Kvarnvios), a surname of Her-
B. c. 197. (Liv. xxxiii. 3. ) This Cydas may be mes, which he derived from mount Cyllene in
the same as the Cydas, the son of Anticalces, who Arcadia, where he had a temple (Paus viii. 17.
was cosnus or supreme magistrate at Gortyna, $1), or from the circumstance of Maia having
when a Roman embassy visited the island about given birth to him on that mountain. (Virg. Aen.
B. C. 184, and composed the differences which viii. 139, &c. )
[L. S. ]
existed between the inhabitants of Gortyna and CYLLE'NIUS (Kvarnvios), the author of two
Cnossis. (Polyb. xxxiii. 15. )
epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal.
2. A Cretan, the friend of Eumenes, wo at- ii. p. 282 ; Jacobs, ii. p. 257), of whom nothing
tempted to negotiate a peace between Eumenes more is known. His name is spelt differently in
## p. 911 (#931) ############################################
CYNAEGEIRUS.
911
CYNOSURA.
were very numerous.
the MSS. of the Anthology, KalAviou, KuaAviou, I lands, hangs on by his teeth, and even in his riu.
Kvinnrios, Kulanviou netiávov. (Jacobs, Anth. tilated state fights desperately with the last men-
(irvec. vol. xiii. p. 878. )
[P. S. )
tioned weapons,
* like a rabid wild beast! "
CILON (Kulwv), an Athenian of noble family (llerod. vi. 114; Suid. s. r. Kuvaiyespos; Just. ii.
and commanding presence, won the prize for the 9; Val. Max. iii. 2. § 22; comp. Sueton. Jul.
deuble course (viavaus) at the Olympic games, in 68. ).
(E. E. )
B. C. 610, and married the daughter of Theagenes, OYVAETIUS. (CINAETH US. ]
tyrant of Memur. Excited apparently and en- CYNANE, CYNA, Or CYNNA (Κυνάνη,
couraged by these advantages, and especially by Kúra, Kúrva), was half-sister to Alexander the
his powerful alliance, he conceived the design of Great, and daughter of Philip by Audata, an
making himself tyrant of Athens, and having con- Illyrian woman. ller father gave her in marriage
sulted the Delpliic oracle on the subject, was to her cousin Amyntas, by whose death she was
enjoined to scize the Acropolis at the principal left a widow in B. c. 336. [AMYNTAS, No. 3. ]
festival of Zeus. Imagining that this must seter, In the following year Alexander promised her
not to the Athenian Acaria (see Dict. of Ant. p. hand, as a reward for his services, to Langarus,
333), but to the Olympic games, at which he had king of the Agrianians, but the intended bride-
50 distinguished himself, he made the attempt Eroom was carried off by sickness. Cynane con-
during the celebration of the latter, and gained tinued unmarried, and employed herself in the
posscssion of the citadel with his partizans, who education of her daughter, Adea or Eurydice,
Here, however, they were whom she is said to bave trained, after the manner
closely besieged, the operations against them of her own education, to martial exercises. When
being conducted, according to Thucydides, by the Arrhidaeus was chosen king, B. C. 323, Cynane
nine archons ; according to Herodotus, by the determined to marry Eurydice to him, and crossed
Prytanes of the Naucrari. (See Dict. of Ant. p. over to Asia accordingly. Her influence was pro-
63%; Arnold's Thucydides, vol. i. Append. iii. p. bably great, and her project alarmed Perdiccas
664. ) At length, pressed by famine, they were and Antipater, the former of whom sent her brother
driven to take refuge at the altar of Athena, whence Alcetas to meet her on her way and put her to
they were induced to withdraw by the archon death. Alcetas did so in defiance of the feelings
Megacles, the Alcmaeonid, on a promise that their of his troops, and Cynane met her doom with an
lives should be spared. But their enemies put undaunted spirit. In B. c. 317, Cassander, after
them to death as soon as they had them in their defeating Olympias, buried Cynane with Eurydice
power, some of them being murdered even at the and Arrhidaeus at Aegae, the royal burying-place.
altar of the Eumenides. Plutarch relates besides (Arr. Anab. i. 5, ap. Phot. p. 70, ed. Bekk. ; Satyr.
that the suppliants, by way of keeping themselves op. Athen. xiii p. 557, c. ; Diod. xix. 52 ; Polyaen.
under the protection of Athena, fastened a line to viii. 60; Perizon. ad Ael. V. 11. xiii. 36. ) [E. E. ]
her statue and held it as they passed from her CYNISCA (Kuvioka), daughter of Archidamus
shrine. When they had reached the temple of 11. king of Sparta, so named after her grandfather
the Eumenides the line broke, and Megacles and Zeuxidamus, who was also called Cyniscus. (Herod.
his colleagues scized on the accident as a proof vi. 71. ) She was the first woman who kept horses
that the goddess had rejected their supplication, for the games, and the first who gained an Olym-
and that they might therefore be massacred in full pian victory. (Paus. iii. 8. $ 1. ) Pausanias men-
accordance with religion. Thucydides and the tions an epigram by an unknown author in her
Scholiast on Aristophanes (Eq. 413) tell us, that honour, which is perhaps the same as the inscrip-
Cylon himself escaped with his brother before the tion he speaks of (vi. 1. $ 2) in his account of her
surrender of his adherents. According to Suidas, monument at Olympia. This was a group of
he was dragged from the altar of the Eumenides, sculpture representing Cynisca with a chariot,
where he had taken refuge, and was murdered. charioteer, and horses, — the work of Apellas.
Herodotus also implies that he was slain with the [APELLAS. ) There were also figures of her borses
rest. His party is said by Plutarch to have re- in brass in the temple of Olympian Zeus (Paus.
covered their strength after his death, and to have v. 12. & 3), and at Sparta she had near the gym-
continued the struggle with the Alcmaeonidae up nasium, called the Platanistas, an heroum. (iii.
to the time of Solon. The date of Cylon's attempt | 15. sl. )
[A. H. C. )
is uncertain. Corsini gives, as a conjecture, B. C. CYNO. [Cyrus. ]
612; while Clinton, also conjecturally, assigns it CYNOBELLI'NUS, one of the kings of Britain
to 620. (Herod. v. 71; Thucyd. i. 126; Suid. s. v. in the reign of Claudius, the capital of whose
Kulúverov ayos ; Plut. Sul. 12; Paus. i. 28, 40, kingdom was Camalodunum. (Colchester or Mal-
(E. E. ) don. ) He was the father of Caractacus, Togo-
CYNA. [CYXANE. ]
dumnus, and Adminius. (Dion Cass. lx. 20, 21;
CYNAEGEI'RUS (Kuvalye:pos), son of Eu- Suet. Cul. 44 ; Oros. vii. 5. )
phorion and brother of the poet Aeschylus, distin- CYNORTES or CYNORTAS (Kuvópons), a
guished himself by his ralour at the battle of son of Amyclas by Diomede, and brother of Hya-
Marathon, B. C. 490. According to Herodotus, cinthus. After the death of his brother Argalus,
when the Persians had fled and were endeavour- he became king of Sparta and father of Oebalus or
ing to escape by sea, Cynaegeirns seized one of of Perieres. His tomb was shown at Sparta not
their ships to keep it back, but fell with his right far from the Scias. (Paus. iii. 1. § 3, 13. $ 1;
hand cut off. The story lost nothing by transmis Apollod. iii. 10. § 3; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest.
sion. The next version related that Cynargeirus, 447. ).
[L. S. ]
on the loss of his right hand, grasped the enemy's CÝNOSLÄRA (Kuvodovká), an Idacan nymph
vessel with his left; and at lengih we arrive at and one of the nurses of Zeus, who placed her
the acme of the ludicrous in the account of Justin. among the stars. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. ii. 2; Arat,
Here the hero, having successively lost both his Phuen. 35 ; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 246. ) [L. S. ]
:
vii. 25. )
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CYPRIANUS.
CYPRIANUS.
CYNTIIA and CY'NTHIUS (Kuvoia and with his clergy concerning various matters of dis-
Kúre. os), surnames respectively of Artemis and cipline, much of his attention being occupied, as
Apollo, which they derived from mount Cynthus the violence of the persecution began to abate, by
in the island of Delos, their birthplace. (Callim. the fierce controversies which arose with regard to
Hymn. in Del. 10; Hor. Carm. i. 21. 2, iii. 28. the readmission of the Lapsi or apostates, who,
12; Lucan, i. 218. )
[L. S. ] according to the form and degree of their guilt,
CYNULCUS. (CANNELUS. )
were designated Sacrificati, or Thurificati, or libel-
CYNUS (Kūvos), a son of Opus, and father of | latici, and were seeking, now that the danger had
Hodoedocus and Larymna, from whom Cynus in passed away, the restoration of their ecclesiastical
Locris derived its name. (Paus. ix. 23. § 4 ; | privileges. Cyprian, although not perfectly con-
Eustath. ad Ilom. p. 277. )
(L. S. ] sistent throughou in his instructions, always ma-
CY NU'RUS (Kúvoupos), a son of Perseus, who nifested a disposition to follow a moderate course ;
is said to have led colonists from Argos into Cymu- and while on the one hand he utterly rejected the
ria, a valley between Argolis and Laconia. (Paus. extreme doctrine of Novatianus, who maintained
ii. 2. $ 3. )
(L. S. ] that the church had no power again to admit the
ÇYPARISSUS (Kurápiocos), a youth of Cea, renegades to her communion, so he was equally
a son of Telephus, was beloved by Apollo and opposed to the laxity of those who were willing to
Zephyrus or Silvanus. When he had inadvertently receive them at once, before they had given evi-
killed his favourite stag, he was seized with immo- dence of their contrition by lengthened penitence,
derate grief, and metamorphosed into a cypress and finally decided that full forgiveness should not
(Ov. Mct. x. 120, &c. ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 64, 680, be extended to any of the offenders until God
Eclog. x. 26, Georg. i. 20. ) Another Cyparissus should have granted peace to his servants. NO-
is mentioned by Eustathius. (Ad Hom. Il. ii. vatus and Felicissimus, taking advantage of these
519. )
[L. S. ] disputes, endeavoured to gain over to their faction
CÝ'PRIA, CYPRIS, CYPRIGENEIA, or many of the impatient and discontented Lapsi.
CYPRO-GENES (Kumpich Kúpis, Kumpuyévela, Noratus actually appointed Felicissimus his deacon
Kuppoyévns), surnames of Aphrodite, who was without the permission or knowledge of his dio-
born in the island of Cyprus, which was also one cesan, who in his turn caused Felicissimus to be
of the principal seats of her worship. (Hom. II. v. excommunicated ; while the latter, far from sub-
458; Pind. 01. i. 120, xi. 125, Pyth. iv. 383; mitting to the sentence, associated with himself
Tibull. iii. 3. 34; Hor. Carm. i. 3. 1. ) (L. S. ] five seditious presbyters, who breaking off in
CYPRIANUS, THA'SCIUS. This cele-open schism, elected Fortunatus, one of their own
brated prelate was a native of Africa, born, al-number, bishop, and ventured to despatch an epis-
though the exact year cannot be ascertained, about tle to Cornelius, bishop of Rome, announcing their
the beginning of the third century. We are not choice. This cabal, however, soon fell to pieces;
acquainted with the particulars of his life as long Cornelius refused to listen to their representations,
as he remained a Gentile ; but it is evident from their supporters gradually dropped off, and their
his writings that he must have been educated with great bond of union was rudely snapped asunder
St. Jerome and Lactantius as by the defection of their great champion, Novatus,
sure us, that he practised the art of oratory, and who, upon his visit to Rome at the commencement
taught rhetoric with distinguished success, and by of A. D. 251, not only ceased to plead the cause of
this or some other honourable occupation he realised the Lapsi, but espoused to the full extent the
considerable wealth. About the year a. D. 246, he views of Novatianus. Scarcely were these trou-
was persuaded to embrace Christianity by the ex- bles happily allaved, and Cyprian once more se-
hortations of Caecilius, an aged presbyter of the curely seated in his chair, when fresh disturbances
church at Carthage, and, assuming the name of the arose in consequence of the acrimonious contest
spiritual patron by whom he had been set free from between Cornelius and Noratianus (CORNELIUS ;
the bondage of Paganism, was henceforward styled NovaTIANUS) for the see of Rome, the former
THASCIUS CAECILIUS CYPRIANUS. At the same finding a warm supporter in the bishop of Carthage,
period he sold all that he had, and distributed the by whose exertions his authority was acknowledged
price among the poor. The popularity acquired by throughout nearly the whole of Africa. In the month
ibis liberality, combined probably with the reputa- of June, A. D. 252, began what is commonly termed
tion he had previously enjoyed, and the pride na- the persecution of Gallus, but which in reality
turally felt in so distinguished a proselyte, secured originated in an unauthorized popular movement
his rapid elevation. In a. D. 247 he was raised excited by the refusal of the Christians to join in
to the rank of a presbyter, and in the course of the the prayers and sacrifices offered up on account of
following year the bishopric of Carthage was forced the deadly pestilence which was devastating the
upon his reluctant acceptance by a large majority various provinces of the Roman empire. On this
of the African clergy, not without strenuous oppo- occasion, as formerly, the mob of Carthage loudly
sition, however, from a small party headed by demanded that Cyprian should be thrown to the
Novatus [Novatus] and Felicissimus, whose ob lions ; but the danger does not appear to have been
stinate resistance and contumacy subsequently imminent, and while in Italy Cornelius was ba-
gave rise to much disorder and violence.
nished to Civita Vecchia, where he died on the
When the persecution of Decius burst forth 14th of September, and his successor Lucius suf-
(a. D. 250), Cyprian, being one of the first marked fered martyrdom a few months afterwards (5th
out as a victim, fled from the storin, in obedience, March, 253), Africa remained comparatively un-
as he tells us (Epist. xiv.
