d not interfered. Cambina gave the
wounded combatants nepenthe, which had the power of converting enmity
to love; so the combatants ceased from fight, Camballo took the fair
Cambina to wife, and Triamond married Canace.--Chaucer, _Squire's
Tale_; Spenser, _Faery Queen_, iv. 3 (1596).

_Canace's Mirror_, a mirror which told the inspectors if the persons
on whom they set their affections would prove true or false.

_Canace's Ring_. The king of Araby and Ind sent Canace, daughter of
Cambuscan (king of Sarra, in Tartary), a ring which enabled her to
understand the language of birds, and to know the medical virtues of
all herbs.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Squire's Tale," 1388).

CANDACE, negro cook in _The Minister's Wooing_, by Harriet Beecher
Stowe. She reverences Dr. Hopkins, but is slow to admit his dogma of
Imputed Sin in Consequence of Adam's Transgression (1859).

CANDAULES (_3 syl._), king of Lydia, who exposed the charms of his
wife to Gyges. The queen was so indignant that she employed Gyges to
murder her husband. She then married the assassin, who became king of
Lydia, and reigned twenty-eight years (B.C. 716-688).

CANDAYA (_The kingdom of_), situate between the great Trapobana and
the South Sea, a couple of leagues beyond cape Comorin.--Cervantes,
_Don Quixote_, II. iii. 4 (1615).

CANDIDE (_2 syl._), the hero of Voltaire's novel of the same name. He
believes that "all things are for the best in the best of all possible
worlds."

Voltaire says "No." He tells you that Candide
Found life most tolerable after meals.
Byron, _Don Juan_, v. 31 (1820).

CANDOUR (_Mrs._), the beau-ideal of female backbiters.--Sheridan, _The
School for Scandal_ (1777).

CANIDIA, a Neapolitan, beloved by the poet Horace. When she deserted
him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by
charms unsphere the moon.--Horace, _Epodes_, v. and xvii.

Such a charm were right Canidian.
Mrs. Browning, _Hector in the Garden_, iv.

CANMORE or GREAT-HEAD, Malcolm III. of Scotland (1057-1093).--Sir W.
Scott, _Tales of a Grandfather_, i. 4.

CANNING (_George_), statesman (1770-1827). Charles Lamb calls him:

St. Stephen's fool, the zany of debate.
_Sonnet in "The Champion_."

CANOPOS, Menelaeos's pilot, killed in the return voyage from Troy by
the bite of a serpent. The town Canoepos (Latin, _Canopus_) was built
on the site where the pilot was buried.

CANTAB, a member of the University of Cam