Calbis, a river of Caria. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 16.
Calce, a city of Campania. Strabo, bk. 5.
Calchas, a celebrated soothsayer, son of Thestor. He accompanied the Greeks to Troy, in the office of high priest; and he informed them that the city could not be taken without the aid of Achilles, that their fleet could not sail from Aulis before Iphigenia was sacrificed to Diana, and that the plague could not be stopped in the Grecian army before the restoration of Chryseis to her father. He told them also that Troy could not be taken before 10 years’ siege. He had received the power of divination from Apollo. Calchas was informed that as soon as he found a man more skilled than himself in divination, he must perish; and this happened near Colophon, after the Trojan war. He was unable to tell how many figs were in the branches of a certain fig tree; and when Mopsus mentioned the exact number, Calchas died through grief. See: [Mopsus]. Homer, Iliad, bk. 1, li. 69.—Aeschylus, Agamemnon.—Euripides, Iphigeneia.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 43.
Calchedonia. See: [Chalcedon].
Calchinia, a daughter of Leucippus. She had a son by Neptune, who inherited his grandfather’s kingdom of Sicyon. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Caldus Cælius, a Roman who killed himself when detained by the Germans. Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 120.
Cale (es), Cales (ium), and Calēnum, now Calvi, a town of Campania. Horace, bk. 4, ode 12.—Juvenal, satire 1, li. 69.—Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 413.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 728.
Calēdonia, a country at the north of Britain, now called Scotland. The reddish hair and lofty stature of its inhabitants seemed to denote a German extraction, according to Tacitus, Life of Agricola. It was so little known to the Romans, and its inhabitants so little civilized, that they called it Britannia Barbara, and they never penetrated into the country either for curiosity or conquest. Martial, bk. 10, ltr. 44.—Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 598.
Calēntum, a place of Spain, where it is said they made bricks so light that they swam on the surface of the water. Pliny, bk. 35, ch. 14.
Calēnus, a famous soothsayer of Etruria in the age of Tarquin. Pliny, bk. 28, ch. 2.——A lieutenant of Cæsar’s army. After Cæsar’s murder, he concealed some that had been proscribed by the triumvirs, and behaved with great honour to them. Plutarch, Cæsar.