ion. When Dunthalmo
heard of the approach of this army, he put Colmar to death. Calthon,
mourning for his brother, was captured, and bound to an oak; but at
daybreak Ossian slew Dunthalmo, cut the thongs of Calthon, gave him
to Colmal, and they lived happily in the halls of Teutha.--Ossian,
_Calthon and Colmal_.

CALYDON (_Prince of_), Meleager, famed for killing the Calydonian
boar.--_Apollod._ i. 8. (See MELEAGER.)

As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd,
Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.
Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 1 (1591).

_Calydon_, a town of Aetolia, founded by Calydon. In Arthurian
romance Calydon is a forest in the north of our island. Probably it is
what Richard of Cirencester calls the "Caledonian Wood," westward of
the Varar or Murray Frith.

CALYDONIAN HUNT. Artemis, to punish Oeneus [_E.nuce_] king of
Calydon, in Aetolia, for neglect, sent a monster boar to ravage his
vineyards. His son Meleager collected together a large company to
hunt it. The boar being killed, a dispute arose respecting the head,
and this led to a war between the Curetes and Calydonians.

A similar tale is told of Theseus (_2 syl._), who vanquished and
killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near
Corinth. (See KROMMYONIAN SOW.)

CALYPSO, in _Telemaque_, a prose-epic by Fenelon, is meant for Mde.
de Montespan. In mythology she was queen of the island Ogygia, on
which Ulysses was wrecked, and where he was detained for seven years.

She essayed after his departure to bring his son Telemachus under
her spell. The lad, seeking the world through for his father, was
preserved from the arts of the temptress by Mentor--Minerva in
disguise.

CALYPSO'S ISLE, Ogygia, a mythical island "in the navel of the sea."
Some consider it to be Gozo, near Malta. Ogygia (_not the island_) is
Boeotia, in Greece.

CAMACHO, "richest of men," makes grand preparations for his wedding
with Quiteria, "fairest of women," but as the bridal party are on
their way, Basilius cheats him of his bride, by pretending to kill
himself. As it is supposed that Basilius is dying, Quiteria is married
to him as a mere matter of form, to soothe his last moments; but when
the service is over, up jumps Basilius, and shows that his "mortal
wounds" are a mere pretense.--Cervantes, an episode in _Don Quixote_,
II. ii. 4 (1615).

CAMANCHES (3 _syl._), or COMANCHES, an Indian tribe of Texas (United
States).

It is a caravan, whi