Calvia, a female minister of Nero’s lusts. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 1, ch. 3.
Calvīna, a prostitute in Juvenal’s age. Bk. 3, li. 133.
Calvisius, a friend of Augustus. Plutarch, Antonius.——An officer whose wife prostituted herself in his camp by night, &c. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 1, ch. 48.
Calumnia and Impudentia, two deities worshipped at Athens. Calumnia was ingeniously represented in a painting by Apelles.
Calusidius, a soldier in the army of Germanicus. When this general wished to stab [♦]himself with his own sword, Calusidius offered him his own, observing that it was sharper. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 1, ch. 35.
[♦] ‘himslf’ replaced with ‘himself’
Calusium, a town of Etruria.
Calvus Cornelius Licinius, a famous orator, equally known for writing iambics. As he was both factious and satirical, he did not fail to excite attention by his animadversions upon Cæsar and Pompey, and, from his eloquence, to dispute the palm of eloquence with Cicero. Cicero, Letters.—Horace, bk. 1, satire 10, li. 19.
Caly̆be, a town of Thrace. Strabo, bk. 17.——The mother of Bucolion by Laomedon. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.——An old woman, priestess in the temple which Juno had at Ardea. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 419.
Calycadnus, a river of Cilicia.