eeps his eyes sharp open, and is able to expose the canting scoundrel
in all his deformity.
_Martin Chuzzlewit, jun._, the hero of the tale called _Martin
Chuzzlewit_, grandson to old Martin. His nature has been warped by
bad training, and, at first, he is both selfish and exacting; but the
troubles and hardships he undergoes in "Eden" completely transform
him, and he becomes worthy of Mary Graham, whom he marries.--C.
Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).
CYNDO'NAX, a chief druid, whose tomb (with a Greek inscription) was
discovered near Dijon, in 1598.
CIACCO' (2 _syl._), a glutton, spoken to by Dante, in the third circle
of hell, the place in which gluttons are consigned to endless woe. The
word means "a pig," and is not a proper name, but only a symbolical
one.--Dante, _Hell_, vi. (1300).
Ciacco, thy dire affliction grieves me much.
_Hell_, vi.
CICERO. When the great Roman orator was given up by Augustus to the
revenge of Antony, it was a cobbler who conducted the sicarii to
Formiae, whither Cicero had fled in a litter, intending to put to
sea. His bearers would have fought, but Cicero forbade them, and one
Herennius has the unenviable notoriety of being his murderer.
It was a cobbler that set the murderers on Cicero.--Ouida, _Ariadne_,
i. 6.
_Cicero of the British Senate_, George Canning (1770-1827).
_Cicero of France_, Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742).
_Cicero of Germany_, John, Elector of Brandenburg (1455, 1486-1499).
_Cicero's Mouth_, Philippe Pot, Prime Minister of Louis XL
(1428-1494).
_The British Cicero_, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778).
_The Christian Cicero_, Lucius Coelius Lactantius (died 330).
_The German Cicero_, Johann Sturm, printer and scholar (1507-1589).
CICELY (_Sweet_). Heroine of novel by Marietta Holley, better known as
"Josiah Allen's wife." (1885).
_Cicely Humphreys_. Putative daughter of Bothwell and Marie
Stuart; who is made the companion of her mother's journeyings and
captivity.--C.M. Yonge, _Unknown to History_ (1885).
CYCLINIUS, mistake in one only manuscript of Chaucer for Cyllenius, a
name of Mercury, from his birth-place, Mt. Cyllene in Arcadia.
Cyclinius (Cyllenius) riding in his chevauchie. Chaucer, _Complaint of
Mars and Venus_.
CID (_The_) = Seid or Signior, also called CAMPEADOR [_Cam.pa'.dor_]
or "Camp hero." Rodrigue Diaz de Bivar was surnamed "the Cid." The
great hero of Castille, he was born at Burgos, 1030, and died
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