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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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