Calăbrus, a river of Calabria. Pausanias, bk. 6.
Calagurritāni, a people of Spain, who ate their wives and children rather than yield to Pompey. Valerius Maximus, bk. 7, ch. 6.
Calais and Zethes. See: [Zethes].
Calagutis, a river of Spain. Florus, bk. 3, ch. 22.
Calămis, an excellent carver. Propertius, bk. 3, poem 9, li. 10.
Calămīsa, a place of Samos. Herodotus, bk. 9.
Calămos, a town of Asia, near mount Libanus. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 20.——A town of Phœnicia.——Another of Babylonia.
Calămus, a son of the river Mæander, who was tenderly attached to Carpo, &c. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 35.
Calānus, a celebrated Indian philosopher, one of the gymnosophists. He followed Alexander in his Indian expedition, and being sick, in his 83rd year, he ordered a pile to be raised, upon which he mounted, decked with flowers and garlands, to the astonishment of the king and of the army. When the pile was fired, Alexander asked him whether he had anything to say. “No,” said he, “I shall meet you again in a very short time.” Alexander died three months after in Babylon. Strabo, bk. 15.—Cicero, de Divinatione, bk. 1, ch. 23.—Arrian & Plutarch, Alexander.—Ælian, bk. 2, ch. 41; bk. 5, ch. 6.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 1, ch. 8.
Calaon, a river of Asia, near Colophon. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 3.