The natives called the
promontory
Taphitis.
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
He also took his brother Eucli-
das as his colleague on the throne, and thus for the
first and only time the Spartans bad two kings of the
same family. After a long, and in many respects suc-
cessful, series of operations against the Achtcans and
Macedonians, the latter of whom had been called in
by Aratus aa allies, Cleomenes was defeated by Anti-
ponus in the battle of Sellasia, and immediately after
fled to Ptolemy Euergetes in Egypt. This monarch
treated him with some degree of generosity, but his
successor p>toleiny Philopator, a weak and suspicious
prince, soon began to look upon him with an evil eye,
? ? and at last kept him in confinement. The Spartan
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OLE
married her eldest brother Ptolemy XII. , and began
to reign with him in her seventeenth year. Both she
and her husband, being minors, were placed by the
will of their father under the guardianship of Rome,
an office which the senate transferred to Pompey. An
insurrection breaking out in the Egyptian capital soon
after the commencement of this reign, Cleopatra was
compelled to yield to the tide of popular fury, and to
flee into Syria, where she sought protection in tempo-
rary exile. The flight of this princess, though mainly
arising from the tumult just mentioned, was unques-
tionably accelerated by the designs of the young king
MI i his ambitious ministers. Their object became
nrmifest when Cleopatra, after a few months' residence
in Syria, returned towards her native countryto resume
her seat on the throne. Ptolemy prepared to oppose
her by force of arms, and a civil war would inevitably
have ensued, had not Cffisar at that very juncture
sailed to the coast of Egypt in pursuit of Pompey. A
secret interview soon took place between Cleopatra
and the Roman general. She placed herself on board
a small skiff, under the protection of Apollodorus, a
Sicilian Greek, set sail from the coast of Syria, reach-
ed the harbour of Alexandrea in safety, and had herself
conveyed into the chamber of the Roman commander
in the form of a large package of goods. The strata-
gem proved completely successful. Cleopatra was
now in her twentieth year, distinguished by extraordi-
nary personal charms, and surrounded with all the
graces which give to those charms their greatest pow-
er. Her voice sounded like the sweetest music; and
she spoke a variety of languages with propriety and
ease. She could, it is said, assume all characters at
will, which all alike became her, and the impression
that was made by her beauty was confirmed by the fas-
cinating brilliancy of her conversation. The day after
this singular meeting, Cajsar summoned before him the
king, as well as the citizens of Alexandrea, and made
arrangements for the restoration of peace, procuring
Cleopatra, at the same time, her share of the throne.
Pothinus, however, one of Ptolemy's ministers, in
whose intriguing spirit all the dissensions of the court
had originated, soon stirred up a second revolt, upon
which the Alexandrcan war commenced, in which
Ptolemy was defeated, and lost his life by drowning.
Cesar now proclaimed Cleopatra queen of Egypt; but
she was compelled to take her brother, the younger Ptol-
emy, who was only eleven years old, as her husband and
colleague on the throne. The Roman general contin-
ued for some time at her court, and she bore him a son,
called, from the name of his father, Cicsarion. During
the six years which immediately followed these events,
the reign of Cleopatra seems not to have been dis-
turbed by insurrection, nor to have been assailed by
foreign war. When her brother, at the age of fourteen,
demanded his share in the government, Cleopatra poi-
soned him, and remained sole possessor of the regal
authority. The dissensions among the rival leaders
who divided the power of Cffisar, had no doubt nearly
involved her in a contest with both parties; but the
decisive issue of the battle of Philippi relieved her
from the hesitation under which some of her measures
appear to have been adopted, and determined her in-
clinations, as well as her interests, in favour of the
conquerors. To afford her an opportunity of explain-
ing her conduct, Antony summoned her to attend him
in Cilicia, and the meeting which she gave him on the
? ? river Cydnus has employed the pen, not only of the
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CLIMAI, a narrow passage on the coast of Lycia,
near Phaselis. ( Vid. Phaselis. )
i ? . ! v. *-. I. a Pythagorean philosopher and musi-
cian, 520 years before the Christian era. (JElian,
V. H. , 14, 23. )--II. An Athenian, said by Herodotus
(8,17) to have been the bravest of his countrymen
in the battle fought against the Persian fleet at Ar-
temisinm: and the Athenians are said by the same
writer to have conducted themselves on that occasion
with the greatest valour of any of the Greeks. --This
Clinias was the father of the celebrated Alcibiadcs.
He married Dinomache, the daughter of Megacles,
grandson to Agariste, the daughter of Clisthenes, ty-
rant of Sicyon. He fell at the battle of Coronea.
Consult the learned note of Valckenaer (ad Hcrodot. ,
I. c. ) for other particulars respecting this Clinias. --
III. The father of Aratus, killed by Abantidas, B. C.
J63. (Vtd. Aratus II. )
CuTo, one of the Muses. She presided over histo-
ry, and was generally represented as holding a half-
opened roll. Tfie invention of the cithara was ascribed
to her. Having drawn on herself the anger of Venus,
by taunting her with her passion for Adonis, Clio was
inspired by the goddess with love for Pierus, the son
of Magnes, and bore him a son IM . 1 ? 1 Hyacinthus.
(Apoltod. , 1, 3, 2, x, -,>,/. > Her name (KAeiu) is de-
rived from icP-eiof (Ionic for xXtof), glory, repoicn,
&c, because she celebrates the glorious actions of the
good and brave.
CLITOMACHUS, a native of Carthage. (Diog. Li-
erl. . 4, 67, *eqq. ) In his early years he acquired a
fondness for learning, which induced him to visit
Greece for the purpose of attending the schools of tlie
philosophers. From the time of his first arrival in
Athens he attached himself to Carneades, and con-
tinued his disciple until his death, when he became
hi>> successor in the academic chair. He studied with
great industry, and made himself master of the systems
of the other schools ; but professed the doctrine of sus-
pension of assent, as it had been taught by his master.
Cicero relates, that he wrote four hundred books upon
philosophical subjects. At an advanced age he was
seized with a lethargy. Recovering in some measure
the use of his faculties; he said, "The love of life
shall deceive me no longer," and laid violent hands
upon himself. He entered, as we have said, upon the
office of preceptor in the academy immediately after the
death of Carneades, and held it thirty years. According
to Cicero, he taught that there is no certain criterion
by which to judge of the truth of those reports which
we receive from the senses, and that, therefore, a wise
man will either wholly suspend his assent,' or decline
giving a peremptory opinion; but that, nevertheless,
men are strongly impelled by nature to follow proba-
bility. His moral doctrine established a natural alli-
ance between pleasure and virtue. He was a professed
enemy to rhetoric, and thought that no place should bo
allowed in society to so dangerous an art. (Scxt.
Emp. ads. Rket. . I) 20. --Enfield'i History of P/ulos-
opky, vol. 1, p. 258. )
CUTUMXUS, a river of Umbria, rising in the vicinity
of Spoletum, and falling into the Tinia, and both to-
gether into the Tiber. The modern name of the Cli-
tumnus is Clilunno. It was famous, according to
Virgil, for its milk-white herds, selected as victims in
the celebration of the triumph. (Virg. , Georg. , 2,
146. -- Properl. , 2, el. 19, 25. -- Sil. Ital. , 8, 452. --
Jut. , 12, 13. -- Claud. , 6, Cons. Hon. , 506. ) The
? ? beautiful description which the younger Pliny (Ep. ,
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CLY
contrary, lie expressly says, "that Tarquin made the
great subterranean cloaca to carry oil'the filth of the
city, a work so vast that even the magnificence of the
present age has not been able to equal it. " (Liv. , 1,
56. ) Pliny also, who records its repair in the reign
of Augustus, expressly says, that, after 800 years, this
opus omnium maximum continued as strong as when
first built by Tarquin. It may, indeed, seem incredi-
ble, that the Romans, in that rude age, should have
been capable of executing so noble a piece of architec-
, ture; but Livy tells us, " that Tarquin sent for artists
from every part of Etruria," for this and his other pub-
lic works. Nothing can be clearer than this evidence
of the Cloaca Maxima being the work of the Tarquins;
and its denial only affords one of the many proofs, that
antiquaries will pervert or overlook facts when they
interfere with their favourite theories. This cloaca,
therefore, is doubly interesting, not only from its ex-
traordinary grandeur and antiquity, but from being,
perhaps, the sole, and certainly the finest, remains of
rtruscan architecture that have come down lo our
times. (Rome in the 19th Century, vol. 1, p. 249,
not. --Compare Burgess, Antiquities of Home, vol. 2,
p. 223. )
Cloanthus, one of the companions of . (Eneas,
from whom the family of the Cluentii at Rome claim-
ed descent. (Vtrg. , Mn. , 5, 122. )
Clodia, I. a sister of Clodius the tribune, and a
female of the most abandoned character. She married
Q. Metellus Ccler, and was suspected of having poi-
soned him. --II. The younger sister of the preceding,
and equally infamous in character. She married Lu-
cullus, but was repudiated by him for her scandalous
conduct. (Plut. , Vil. Lucull. )
Clodia Lex, I. de Cypro, was brought forward by
the tribune Clodius, A. U. C. 695, that Cyprus should
be taken from Ptolemy and made a Roman province.
This was done in order to punish that monarch for
having refused Clodius money to pay his ransom when
taken by the pirates, and to remove Cato out of the
way by appointing him to see the law executed. --II.
Another, de Magistratibus, A. U. C. 695, by the same.
It forbade the censors to put a stigma or mark of in-
famy upon any person who had not been actually ac-
cused and condemned by both of them. -- III. An-
other, A. U. C. 695, which required the same distribu-
tion of com among the people gratis, as had been given
them before at six asses and a triens the modius. --IV.
Another, A. U. C. 695, by the same, de Judiciis. It
called to an account such as had executed a Roman
citizen without a judgment of the people, and all the
formalities of a trial. Cicero was aimed at by this
law, and soon after, by moans of a hired mob, was ac-
tually banished.
Clodius, Publius, a Roman descended from an il-
lustrious family, but notorious as a bold and reckless
demagogue, and a man of the most corrupt morals.
Besides being guilty of the most revolting turpitude in
the case of his nearest female relatives, he introduced
himself, in woman's clothing, into the house of Julius
Cffisar, with improper designs against Pompeia, the
wife of Cesar, of whom he was enamoured, and
who was then celebrating the mysteries of the Bona
Dea, at which no male was allowed to be present.
He was tried for the sacrilege, but escaped punish-
ment by bribing the judges. In order to be eligible to
the tribuneship, he relinquished his patriotic rank, and
? ? had himself adopted into a plebeian family. While
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eompanied her mistress to Troy when she eloped with
Pans {Ovid, Hcroid. , 17, 267--Horn. , II. , 3, 144. )
Clymexeides, a patronymic given to Phaethon's
sisters, who were daughters of Clymene.
Clypea (called by the Greek writers Aspis), now
AMihia, a town of Africa Propria, 22 miles east of
Carthage. It was built upon a promontory which was
shaped like a shield. Agathocles seized upon this
place when he landed in Africa, fortified it, and gave
it, from the shape of the promontory, the name of As-
pis (" a shield*' in Greek, same as Clypcus in Latin).
The natives called the promontory Taphitis. This
town served as a stronghold to Rcgulus in the first
Punic war. {Lucan, 4, 586. -- Liv. , 27, 29. -- Cas. ,
B. C, 2, 23. )
Clytemnestba, a daughter of Tyndarus, king of
Sparta, by Leda. She was bom, together with her
brother Castor, from one of the eggs which her mother
brought forth after her amour with Jupiter, under the
form of a swan. She married Agamemnon, king of
Mycene. When this monarch went to the Trojan war,
be left his wife and family, and all his affairs, to the care
of his relation . ? jiisthus. But the latter proved un-
faithful to his trust, corrupted Clytemnestra, and usurp-
ed the throne. A gamemnon, on his return home, was
murdered by his guilty wife, who was herself after-
ward slain, along with jEgisthus, by Orestes, son of
the deceased monarch. (Consult, for a more detailed
account, the articles Agamemnon and Orestes. )
Cnidus, a town and promontory of Doris in Caria,
at the extremity of a promontory called Triopium.
The founder of the place is said to have been Triopas.
(Dud. , 5, 61. -- Pausan. , 10, 2. ) From him it re-
ceived at first the name of Triopium, which at a later
period was confined merely to the promontory on which
it stood. (Seylax, p. 38. --Herodot. , 1, 174. ) Venus
was the chief deity of the place, and had three temples
erected to heT, under the several surnames of Doritis,
Acrtea, and Euplcea. In the last of these stood a cele-
brated statue of the goddess, the work of Praxiteles.
(Pausan. , 1, 1. --Pirn. , 36, 5--Hot. , Od. , 3, 28. --Ca-
lull. , 36, 11. ) Nicomedes of Bithynia wished to pur-
chase this admirable production of the chisel, and actual-
ly offered to liquidate the debt of Cnidus, which was very
considerable, if the citizens would cede it to him ; but
they refused to part with what they esteemed the glory
of their city. (Plin. , I. e. ) A drawing of the Venus
of Cnidus, from an antique statue found near Rome,
is given by Flaxman, at the end of his lectures on
sculpture (? pi. 22). The shores of Cnidus furnished in
ancient times, as they do now, a great abundance of
fishes. The wines were famous, and Theophrastus
speaks of the Cnidian onions as of a particular species,
being very mild, and not occasioning tears. Cnidus
was the birthplace of the famous mathematician and
astronomerEudoTus ; of Agatharchidas, Theopompus,
and Ctesias. It is now a mere heap of ruins; and
the modern name of the promontory is Cape Crio.
(Mannert, Geogr. , vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 236. ) An account
of the ruins of Cnidus is given in Clarke's Travels,
vol. 3, p. 261, from Walpole's MS. Journal.
Cmoscs (Kvuaoc, more correct than Cnossus,
Kvuoooc, if we follow the language of coins and in-
scriptions), the royal city of Crete, on the northern
coast, at a small distance from the sea. Its earlier
name was Ceratus. which appellation was given also
to the inconsiderable stream that flowed beneath its
walls. (Strab. , 476. ) It was indebted to Minos for
? ? all its importance and splendour. That monarch is
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COL
from innumerable weeds upon its banks, and occasions
Vhe greatest part of the malaria of the plain. " (Hughes,
Travels in Greece, &c, vol. 2, p. 311. -- Compare
Wordsworth's Greece, p. 254, scqq. )
Codanus sinus, one of the ancient names of the
Baltic. Mela (3, 3, 6) represents it as full of large
and small islands, the largest of which he calls Scan-
dinavia; so also Pliny (4, 13). The name Codanus
seems to have some reference to that of the Goths in
sound. The modern term Baltic appears to be de-
rived from the Celtic Bait or Belt, denoting a collection
of water; whence also the name of the straits, Great
and Little Belt. (Malte-Brun, Diet. Geogr. , p. viii. )
Codomannus, a surname of Darius the Third, king
of Persia. (Vid. Darius III. )
Codrus, the last king of Athens. He received the
sceptre from his father Melanthus, and was now far
advanced in. years, having reigned for a considerable
time, when some of the Donan states united their
forces for the invasion of Attica. The Dorian army
marched to Athens, and lay encamped under its walls;
and the oracle at Delphi had assured them of success,
provided they spared the life of the Athenian king.
A friendly Delphian, named Clcomantis, disclosed the
answer of the oracle to the Athenians, and Codrus re-
solved to devote himself for his country in a manner
not unlike that which immortalized among the Ro-
mans, at a later date, the name of the Decii. He
went out' at the gate disguised in a woodman's garb,
and, falling in with two Dorians, killed one with his
bill, and was killed by the other. The Athenians
thereupon sent a herald to claim the body of their king,
and the Dorian chiefs, deeming the war hopeless, with-
drew their forces from Attica. --This story, which con-
tinued for centuries to warm the patriotism of the
Athenians, has been regarded by some as altogether
improbable. It would seem, however, to be confirm-
ed by the fact mentioned hy the orator Lycurgus
(contra Leocr. , p. 158), that Clcomantis, and his pos-
terity, were honoured with the privilege of sharing the
entertainment provided in the Prytaneum at Athens
for the guests of the state. But we scarcely know
how the current tradition is to be reconciled with an-
other preserved by Pausanias (7, 25), that a part of
the Dorian army effected their entrance by night
within the walls, and, being surrounded by their en-
emies, took refuge at the altars of the Eumenides on
the Areopagus, and were spared by the piety of the
Athenians. If, however, either must be rejected as a
fabrication, this last has certainly the slighter claim to
credit. --After, the death of Codrus, the nobles, taking
idvantage, perhaps, of the opportunity afforded by a
dispute between his sons, are said to have abolished
the title of king, and to have substituted for it that of
archon. This new office was to be held for life, and
then transmitted to the son of the deceased. The
first of these hereditary archons was Medon, son of
Codrus, from whom the thirteen following archons
were called Medontidro, as being his lineal descend-
ants. (Vid. Archontes. --ThirlwaWs Hist, of Greece,
vol. 1, p. 275, vol. 2, p. 15. )
Coele (Ko! ? . v), or, the Hollow, I. the northern di-
vision of Elis. --II. A quarter in the suburbs of
Athens, appropriated to sepulchres. Cimon and Thu-
xydides were both interred in this place. (Herodot. ,
6, 103--Plut. , Vit. Cimon. -- Pausan. , 1,23. ) Coele
is classed by Hesychius among the Attic demi or bor-
? ? oughs. Col. Leake places, with great probability, this
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sostris. left behind by him in this quarter to guard the
passes when he was going on bis Scythian expedition,
and who were finally established here as a military colo-
ny. Another argument, in favour of the identity of the
Colchians and Egyptians, isdiawnby Herodotus from
the singular circumstance of the rite of circumcision
being common to both. (Compare Michaelis, Mot-
Kefkt , vol. 4, $ 185. -- Meiners, in Comment. Soc.
Keg. Colling. , vol. 14, p. 207, seqq. , p. 211, <<? ? -)
--The account here given by Herodotus of the Col-
chians has elicited a great diversity of opinion among
modern scholars. Heeren, for example, thinks that
the Egyptian colony in Colchis owed its existence to
the Eastern custom of transplanting vanquished na-
tions, either in whole or part, to other and more dis-
tant regions; and he supposes the Colchian settle-
ment to have been the result of some such transplanta-
tion by Nebuchadnezzar, or some other of the Asiatic
monarchs, who penetrated into Egypt. (Idccn, vol. 1,
pt 1 p 405, not. ) Holstenius makes the Colchians
to have been a colony of Jews, transported to the
shores of the Euxine by some Assynan king. (Ep.
ad inert, ed. Boissonad. , p. 510. ) Michaelis views
them as of Syrian origin, led out from homo after the
overthrow of the kingdom of Damascus, (Afo>>. Recht. ,
vol 4 v 186, p. 18, not) Hitter maintains a theory
altogether different from any of the preceding. He
makes the Colchians of Indian origin, and in this
wav explains their acquaintance with the manufacture
of linen. According to him they were a mercantile
colony, established on the shores of the Euxine for the
purposes of traffic, and the very name of Sardoman,
as applied to the Colchian linen, he traces, along with
the term Sindon (Sivduv, "fine linen"), to the land
(Ritter, VorhalU, p. 35,
of Serhind (Sind) or India
Colias Pbomojjtobicm, a promontory of Attica,
about twenty stadia from Phalerum, and still retaining
its ancient name, though occasionally designated by
that of Trispyrgoi. Here was a temple consecrated
to Venus, another to the goddesses named Genctyllides
(Paxsan. . 1, 1. --Strab. , 398), and also chapels of
Pan and Ceres. (Meurs. , dc Pirao, c. 11, p. 574. )
Colias was also celebrated for its earthenware. (Plut. ,
it Audit. --Op. , ed. Reiske, vol. 6, p. 153. --Etym.
Mag. Suid. ) Ritter indulges in some curious spec-
ulations on the name Colias, and finds in it a connect-
ing link between the religious systems of the eastern
and western world. ( VorhalU, p. 54, seqq. )
Collatia, I. a town of Latium, to the north of Ga-
bii, and colonized from Alba. It was rendered famous
in Roman history by the self-immolation of the chaste
Lucretia. (Lav. , 1, 58. ) In the time of Strabo (229)
it was little more than a village. The ruins of this
place are still to be traced on a hill, which from thence
has obtained the name of Caslellacio. (Nibby, Viag-
gio Antiquario, vol. 1, p. 240.
das as his colleague on the throne, and thus for the
first and only time the Spartans bad two kings of the
same family. After a long, and in many respects suc-
cessful, series of operations against the Achtcans and
Macedonians, the latter of whom had been called in
by Aratus aa allies, Cleomenes was defeated by Anti-
ponus in the battle of Sellasia, and immediately after
fled to Ptolemy Euergetes in Egypt. This monarch
treated him with some degree of generosity, but his
successor p>toleiny Philopator, a weak and suspicious
prince, soon began to look upon him with an evil eye,
? ? and at last kept him in confinement. The Spartan
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OLE
married her eldest brother Ptolemy XII. , and began
to reign with him in her seventeenth year. Both she
and her husband, being minors, were placed by the
will of their father under the guardianship of Rome,
an office which the senate transferred to Pompey. An
insurrection breaking out in the Egyptian capital soon
after the commencement of this reign, Cleopatra was
compelled to yield to the tide of popular fury, and to
flee into Syria, where she sought protection in tempo-
rary exile. The flight of this princess, though mainly
arising from the tumult just mentioned, was unques-
tionably accelerated by the designs of the young king
MI i his ambitious ministers. Their object became
nrmifest when Cleopatra, after a few months' residence
in Syria, returned towards her native countryto resume
her seat on the throne. Ptolemy prepared to oppose
her by force of arms, and a civil war would inevitably
have ensued, had not Cffisar at that very juncture
sailed to the coast of Egypt in pursuit of Pompey. A
secret interview soon took place between Cleopatra
and the Roman general. She placed herself on board
a small skiff, under the protection of Apollodorus, a
Sicilian Greek, set sail from the coast of Syria, reach-
ed the harbour of Alexandrea in safety, and had herself
conveyed into the chamber of the Roman commander
in the form of a large package of goods. The strata-
gem proved completely successful. Cleopatra was
now in her twentieth year, distinguished by extraordi-
nary personal charms, and surrounded with all the
graces which give to those charms their greatest pow-
er. Her voice sounded like the sweetest music; and
she spoke a variety of languages with propriety and
ease. She could, it is said, assume all characters at
will, which all alike became her, and the impression
that was made by her beauty was confirmed by the fas-
cinating brilliancy of her conversation. The day after
this singular meeting, Cajsar summoned before him the
king, as well as the citizens of Alexandrea, and made
arrangements for the restoration of peace, procuring
Cleopatra, at the same time, her share of the throne.
Pothinus, however, one of Ptolemy's ministers, in
whose intriguing spirit all the dissensions of the court
had originated, soon stirred up a second revolt, upon
which the Alexandrcan war commenced, in which
Ptolemy was defeated, and lost his life by drowning.
Cesar now proclaimed Cleopatra queen of Egypt; but
she was compelled to take her brother, the younger Ptol-
emy, who was only eleven years old, as her husband and
colleague on the throne. The Roman general contin-
ued for some time at her court, and she bore him a son,
called, from the name of his father, Cicsarion. During
the six years which immediately followed these events,
the reign of Cleopatra seems not to have been dis-
turbed by insurrection, nor to have been assailed by
foreign war. When her brother, at the age of fourteen,
demanded his share in the government, Cleopatra poi-
soned him, and remained sole possessor of the regal
authority. The dissensions among the rival leaders
who divided the power of Cffisar, had no doubt nearly
involved her in a contest with both parties; but the
decisive issue of the battle of Philippi relieved her
from the hesitation under which some of her measures
appear to have been adopted, and determined her in-
clinations, as well as her interests, in favour of the
conquerors. To afford her an opportunity of explain-
ing her conduct, Antony summoned her to attend him
in Cilicia, and the meeting which she gave him on the
? ? river Cydnus has employed the pen, not only of the
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CLIMAI, a narrow passage on the coast of Lycia,
near Phaselis. ( Vid. Phaselis. )
i ? . ! v. *-. I. a Pythagorean philosopher and musi-
cian, 520 years before the Christian era. (JElian,
V. H. , 14, 23. )--II. An Athenian, said by Herodotus
(8,17) to have been the bravest of his countrymen
in the battle fought against the Persian fleet at Ar-
temisinm: and the Athenians are said by the same
writer to have conducted themselves on that occasion
with the greatest valour of any of the Greeks. --This
Clinias was the father of the celebrated Alcibiadcs.
He married Dinomache, the daughter of Megacles,
grandson to Agariste, the daughter of Clisthenes, ty-
rant of Sicyon. He fell at the battle of Coronea.
Consult the learned note of Valckenaer (ad Hcrodot. ,
I. c. ) for other particulars respecting this Clinias. --
III. The father of Aratus, killed by Abantidas, B. C.
J63. (Vtd. Aratus II. )
CuTo, one of the Muses. She presided over histo-
ry, and was generally represented as holding a half-
opened roll. Tfie invention of the cithara was ascribed
to her. Having drawn on herself the anger of Venus,
by taunting her with her passion for Adonis, Clio was
inspired by the goddess with love for Pierus, the son
of Magnes, and bore him a son IM . 1 ? 1 Hyacinthus.
(Apoltod. , 1, 3, 2, x, -,>,/. > Her name (KAeiu) is de-
rived from icP-eiof (Ionic for xXtof), glory, repoicn,
&c, because she celebrates the glorious actions of the
good and brave.
CLITOMACHUS, a native of Carthage. (Diog. Li-
erl. . 4, 67, *eqq. ) In his early years he acquired a
fondness for learning, which induced him to visit
Greece for the purpose of attending the schools of tlie
philosophers. From the time of his first arrival in
Athens he attached himself to Carneades, and con-
tinued his disciple until his death, when he became
hi>> successor in the academic chair. He studied with
great industry, and made himself master of the systems
of the other schools ; but professed the doctrine of sus-
pension of assent, as it had been taught by his master.
Cicero relates, that he wrote four hundred books upon
philosophical subjects. At an advanced age he was
seized with a lethargy. Recovering in some measure
the use of his faculties; he said, "The love of life
shall deceive me no longer," and laid violent hands
upon himself. He entered, as we have said, upon the
office of preceptor in the academy immediately after the
death of Carneades, and held it thirty years. According
to Cicero, he taught that there is no certain criterion
by which to judge of the truth of those reports which
we receive from the senses, and that, therefore, a wise
man will either wholly suspend his assent,' or decline
giving a peremptory opinion; but that, nevertheless,
men are strongly impelled by nature to follow proba-
bility. His moral doctrine established a natural alli-
ance between pleasure and virtue. He was a professed
enemy to rhetoric, and thought that no place should bo
allowed in society to so dangerous an art. (Scxt.
Emp. ads. Rket. . I) 20. --Enfield'i History of P/ulos-
opky, vol. 1, p. 258. )
CUTUMXUS, a river of Umbria, rising in the vicinity
of Spoletum, and falling into the Tinia, and both to-
gether into the Tiber. The modern name of the Cli-
tumnus is Clilunno. It was famous, according to
Virgil, for its milk-white herds, selected as victims in
the celebration of the triumph. (Virg. , Georg. , 2,
146. -- Properl. , 2, el. 19, 25. -- Sil. Ital. , 8, 452. --
Jut. , 12, 13. -- Claud. , 6, Cons. Hon. , 506. ) The
? ? beautiful description which the younger Pliny (Ep. ,
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contrary, lie expressly says, "that Tarquin made the
great subterranean cloaca to carry oil'the filth of the
city, a work so vast that even the magnificence of the
present age has not been able to equal it. " (Liv. , 1,
56. ) Pliny also, who records its repair in the reign
of Augustus, expressly says, that, after 800 years, this
opus omnium maximum continued as strong as when
first built by Tarquin. It may, indeed, seem incredi-
ble, that the Romans, in that rude age, should have
been capable of executing so noble a piece of architec-
, ture; but Livy tells us, " that Tarquin sent for artists
from every part of Etruria," for this and his other pub-
lic works. Nothing can be clearer than this evidence
of the Cloaca Maxima being the work of the Tarquins;
and its denial only affords one of the many proofs, that
antiquaries will pervert or overlook facts when they
interfere with their favourite theories. This cloaca,
therefore, is doubly interesting, not only from its ex-
traordinary grandeur and antiquity, but from being,
perhaps, the sole, and certainly the finest, remains of
rtruscan architecture that have come down lo our
times. (Rome in the 19th Century, vol. 1, p. 249,
not. --Compare Burgess, Antiquities of Home, vol. 2,
p. 223. )
Cloanthus, one of the companions of . (Eneas,
from whom the family of the Cluentii at Rome claim-
ed descent. (Vtrg. , Mn. , 5, 122. )
Clodia, I. a sister of Clodius the tribune, and a
female of the most abandoned character. She married
Q. Metellus Ccler, and was suspected of having poi-
soned him. --II. The younger sister of the preceding,
and equally infamous in character. She married Lu-
cullus, but was repudiated by him for her scandalous
conduct. (Plut. , Vil. Lucull. )
Clodia Lex, I. de Cypro, was brought forward by
the tribune Clodius, A. U. C. 695, that Cyprus should
be taken from Ptolemy and made a Roman province.
This was done in order to punish that monarch for
having refused Clodius money to pay his ransom when
taken by the pirates, and to remove Cato out of the
way by appointing him to see the law executed. --II.
Another, de Magistratibus, A. U. C. 695, by the same.
It forbade the censors to put a stigma or mark of in-
famy upon any person who had not been actually ac-
cused and condemned by both of them. -- III. An-
other, A. U. C. 695, which required the same distribu-
tion of com among the people gratis, as had been given
them before at six asses and a triens the modius. --IV.
Another, A. U. C. 695, by the same, de Judiciis. It
called to an account such as had executed a Roman
citizen without a judgment of the people, and all the
formalities of a trial. Cicero was aimed at by this
law, and soon after, by moans of a hired mob, was ac-
tually banished.
Clodius, Publius, a Roman descended from an il-
lustrious family, but notorious as a bold and reckless
demagogue, and a man of the most corrupt morals.
Besides being guilty of the most revolting turpitude in
the case of his nearest female relatives, he introduced
himself, in woman's clothing, into the house of Julius
Cffisar, with improper designs against Pompeia, the
wife of Cesar, of whom he was enamoured, and
who was then celebrating the mysteries of the Bona
Dea, at which no male was allowed to be present.
He was tried for the sacrilege, but escaped punish-
ment by bribing the judges. In order to be eligible to
the tribuneship, he relinquished his patriotic rank, and
? ? had himself adopted into a plebeian family. While
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eompanied her mistress to Troy when she eloped with
Pans {Ovid, Hcroid. , 17, 267--Horn. , II. , 3, 144. )
Clymexeides, a patronymic given to Phaethon's
sisters, who were daughters of Clymene.
Clypea (called by the Greek writers Aspis), now
AMihia, a town of Africa Propria, 22 miles east of
Carthage. It was built upon a promontory which was
shaped like a shield. Agathocles seized upon this
place when he landed in Africa, fortified it, and gave
it, from the shape of the promontory, the name of As-
pis (" a shield*' in Greek, same as Clypcus in Latin).
The natives called the promontory Taphitis. This
town served as a stronghold to Rcgulus in the first
Punic war. {Lucan, 4, 586. -- Liv. , 27, 29. -- Cas. ,
B. C, 2, 23. )
Clytemnestba, a daughter of Tyndarus, king of
Sparta, by Leda. She was bom, together with her
brother Castor, from one of the eggs which her mother
brought forth after her amour with Jupiter, under the
form of a swan. She married Agamemnon, king of
Mycene. When this monarch went to the Trojan war,
be left his wife and family, and all his affairs, to the care
of his relation . ? jiisthus. But the latter proved un-
faithful to his trust, corrupted Clytemnestra, and usurp-
ed the throne. A gamemnon, on his return home, was
murdered by his guilty wife, who was herself after-
ward slain, along with jEgisthus, by Orestes, son of
the deceased monarch. (Consult, for a more detailed
account, the articles Agamemnon and Orestes. )
Cnidus, a town and promontory of Doris in Caria,
at the extremity of a promontory called Triopium.
The founder of the place is said to have been Triopas.
(Dud. , 5, 61. -- Pausan. , 10, 2. ) From him it re-
ceived at first the name of Triopium, which at a later
period was confined merely to the promontory on which
it stood. (Seylax, p. 38. --Herodot. , 1, 174. ) Venus
was the chief deity of the place, and had three temples
erected to heT, under the several surnames of Doritis,
Acrtea, and Euplcea. In the last of these stood a cele-
brated statue of the goddess, the work of Praxiteles.
(Pausan. , 1, 1. --Pirn. , 36, 5--Hot. , Od. , 3, 28. --Ca-
lull. , 36, 11. ) Nicomedes of Bithynia wished to pur-
chase this admirable production of the chisel, and actual-
ly offered to liquidate the debt of Cnidus, which was very
considerable, if the citizens would cede it to him ; but
they refused to part with what they esteemed the glory
of their city. (Plin. , I. e. ) A drawing of the Venus
of Cnidus, from an antique statue found near Rome,
is given by Flaxman, at the end of his lectures on
sculpture (? pi. 22). The shores of Cnidus furnished in
ancient times, as they do now, a great abundance of
fishes. The wines were famous, and Theophrastus
speaks of the Cnidian onions as of a particular species,
being very mild, and not occasioning tears. Cnidus
was the birthplace of the famous mathematician and
astronomerEudoTus ; of Agatharchidas, Theopompus,
and Ctesias. It is now a mere heap of ruins; and
the modern name of the promontory is Cape Crio.
(Mannert, Geogr. , vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 236. ) An account
of the ruins of Cnidus is given in Clarke's Travels,
vol. 3, p. 261, from Walpole's MS. Journal.
Cmoscs (Kvuaoc, more correct than Cnossus,
Kvuoooc, if we follow the language of coins and in-
scriptions), the royal city of Crete, on the northern
coast, at a small distance from the sea. Its earlier
name was Ceratus. which appellation was given also
to the inconsiderable stream that flowed beneath its
walls. (Strab. , 476. ) It was indebted to Minos for
? ? all its importance and splendour. That monarch is
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from innumerable weeds upon its banks, and occasions
Vhe greatest part of the malaria of the plain. " (Hughes,
Travels in Greece, &c, vol. 2, p. 311. -- Compare
Wordsworth's Greece, p. 254, scqq. )
Codanus sinus, one of the ancient names of the
Baltic. Mela (3, 3, 6) represents it as full of large
and small islands, the largest of which he calls Scan-
dinavia; so also Pliny (4, 13). The name Codanus
seems to have some reference to that of the Goths in
sound. The modern term Baltic appears to be de-
rived from the Celtic Bait or Belt, denoting a collection
of water; whence also the name of the straits, Great
and Little Belt. (Malte-Brun, Diet. Geogr. , p. viii. )
Codomannus, a surname of Darius the Third, king
of Persia. (Vid. Darius III. )
Codrus, the last king of Athens. He received the
sceptre from his father Melanthus, and was now far
advanced in. years, having reigned for a considerable
time, when some of the Donan states united their
forces for the invasion of Attica. The Dorian army
marched to Athens, and lay encamped under its walls;
and the oracle at Delphi had assured them of success,
provided they spared the life of the Athenian king.
A friendly Delphian, named Clcomantis, disclosed the
answer of the oracle to the Athenians, and Codrus re-
solved to devote himself for his country in a manner
not unlike that which immortalized among the Ro-
mans, at a later date, the name of the Decii. He
went out' at the gate disguised in a woodman's garb,
and, falling in with two Dorians, killed one with his
bill, and was killed by the other. The Athenians
thereupon sent a herald to claim the body of their king,
and the Dorian chiefs, deeming the war hopeless, with-
drew their forces from Attica. --This story, which con-
tinued for centuries to warm the patriotism of the
Athenians, has been regarded by some as altogether
improbable. It would seem, however, to be confirm-
ed by the fact mentioned hy the orator Lycurgus
(contra Leocr. , p. 158), that Clcomantis, and his pos-
terity, were honoured with the privilege of sharing the
entertainment provided in the Prytaneum at Athens
for the guests of the state. But we scarcely know
how the current tradition is to be reconciled with an-
other preserved by Pausanias (7, 25), that a part of
the Dorian army effected their entrance by night
within the walls, and, being surrounded by their en-
emies, took refuge at the altars of the Eumenides on
the Areopagus, and were spared by the piety of the
Athenians. If, however, either must be rejected as a
fabrication, this last has certainly the slighter claim to
credit. --After, the death of Codrus, the nobles, taking
idvantage, perhaps, of the opportunity afforded by a
dispute between his sons, are said to have abolished
the title of king, and to have substituted for it that of
archon. This new office was to be held for life, and
then transmitted to the son of the deceased. The
first of these hereditary archons was Medon, son of
Codrus, from whom the thirteen following archons
were called Medontidro, as being his lineal descend-
ants. (Vid. Archontes. --ThirlwaWs Hist, of Greece,
vol. 1, p. 275, vol. 2, p. 15. )
Coele (Ko! ? . v), or, the Hollow, I. the northern di-
vision of Elis. --II. A quarter in the suburbs of
Athens, appropriated to sepulchres. Cimon and Thu-
xydides were both interred in this place. (Herodot. ,
6, 103--Plut. , Vit. Cimon. -- Pausan. , 1,23. ) Coele
is classed by Hesychius among the Attic demi or bor-
? ? oughs. Col. Leake places, with great probability, this
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sostris. left behind by him in this quarter to guard the
passes when he was going on bis Scythian expedition,
and who were finally established here as a military colo-
ny. Another argument, in favour of the identity of the
Colchians and Egyptians, isdiawnby Herodotus from
the singular circumstance of the rite of circumcision
being common to both. (Compare Michaelis, Mot-
Kefkt , vol. 4, $ 185. -- Meiners, in Comment. Soc.
Keg. Colling. , vol. 14, p. 207, seqq. , p. 211, <<? ? -)
--The account here given by Herodotus of the Col-
chians has elicited a great diversity of opinion among
modern scholars. Heeren, for example, thinks that
the Egyptian colony in Colchis owed its existence to
the Eastern custom of transplanting vanquished na-
tions, either in whole or part, to other and more dis-
tant regions; and he supposes the Colchian settle-
ment to have been the result of some such transplanta-
tion by Nebuchadnezzar, or some other of the Asiatic
monarchs, who penetrated into Egypt. (Idccn, vol. 1,
pt 1 p 405, not. ) Holstenius makes the Colchians
to have been a colony of Jews, transported to the
shores of the Euxine by some Assynan king. (Ep.
ad inert, ed. Boissonad. , p. 510. ) Michaelis views
them as of Syrian origin, led out from homo after the
overthrow of the kingdom of Damascus, (Afo>>. Recht. ,
vol 4 v 186, p. 18, not) Hitter maintains a theory
altogether different from any of the preceding. He
makes the Colchians of Indian origin, and in this
wav explains their acquaintance with the manufacture
of linen. According to him they were a mercantile
colony, established on the shores of the Euxine for the
purposes of traffic, and the very name of Sardoman,
as applied to the Colchian linen, he traces, along with
the term Sindon (Sivduv, "fine linen"), to the land
(Ritter, VorhalU, p. 35,
of Serhind (Sind) or India
Colias Pbomojjtobicm, a promontory of Attica,
about twenty stadia from Phalerum, and still retaining
its ancient name, though occasionally designated by
that of Trispyrgoi. Here was a temple consecrated
to Venus, another to the goddesses named Genctyllides
(Paxsan. . 1, 1. --Strab. , 398), and also chapels of
Pan and Ceres. (Meurs. , dc Pirao, c. 11, p. 574. )
Colias was also celebrated for its earthenware. (Plut. ,
it Audit. --Op. , ed. Reiske, vol. 6, p. 153. --Etym.
Mag. Suid. ) Ritter indulges in some curious spec-
ulations on the name Colias, and finds in it a connect-
ing link between the religious systems of the eastern
and western world. ( VorhalU, p. 54, seqq. )
Collatia, I. a town of Latium, to the north of Ga-
bii, and colonized from Alba. It was rendered famous
in Roman history by the self-immolation of the chaste
Lucretia. (Lav. , 1, 58. ) In the time of Strabo (229)
it was little more than a village. The ruins of this
place are still to be traced on a hill, which from thence
has obtained the name of Caslellacio. (Nibby, Viag-
gio Antiquario, vol. 1, p. 240.
