Caly̆ce, a daughter of Æolus son of Helenus and Enaretta, daughter of Deimachus. She had Endymion king of Elis, by Æthlius the son of Jupiter. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 1.——A Grecian girl, who fell in love with a youth called Evathlus. As she was unable to gain the object of her love, she threw herself from a precipice. This tragical story was made into a song by Stesichorus, and was still extant in the age of Athenæus, bk. 14.——A daughter of Hecaton mother of Cycnus. Hyginus, fable 157.
Calydium, a town on the Appian way.
Calydna, an island in the Myrtoan sea. Some suppose it to be near Rhodes, others near Tenedos. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 205.
Calydon, a city of Ætolia, where Œneus the father of Meleager reigned. The Evenus flows through it, and it receives its name from Calydon the son of Ætolus. During the reign of Œneus, Diana sent a wild boar to ravage the country, on account of the neglect which had been shown to her divinity by the king. All the princes of the age assembled to hunt this boar, which is greatly celebrated by the poets, under the name of the chase of Calydon, or the Calydonian boar. Meleager killed the animal with his own hand, and gave the head to Atalanta, of whom he was enamoured. The skin of the boar was preserved, and was still seen in the age of Pausanias, in the temple of Minerva Alea. The tusks were also preserved by the Arcadians in Tegea, and Augustus carried them away to Rome, because the people of Tegea had followed the party of Antony. These tusks were shown for a long time at Rome. One of them was about half an ell long, and the other was broken. See: [Meleager] and [Atalanta]. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 8.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 45.—Strabo, bk. 8.—Homer, [♦]Iliad, bk. 9, li. 577.—Hyginus, fable 174.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, fable 4, &c.——A son of Ætolus and Pronoe daughter of Phorbas. He gave his name to a town of Ætolia.
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Caly̆dōnis, a name of Deianira, as living in Calydon. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, fable 4.
Caly̆dōnius, a surname of Bacchus.
Calymne, an island near Lebynthos. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, bk. 2, li. 81.
Calynda, a town of Caria. Ptolemy, bk. 5, ch. 3.
Calȳpso, one of the Oceanides, or one of the daughters of Atlas, according to some, was goddess of silence, and reigned in the island of Ogygia, whose situation and even existence is doubted. When Ulysses was shipwrecked on her coasts, she received him with great hospitality, and offered him immortality if he would remain with her as a husband. The hero refused, and after seven years’ delay, he was permitted to depart from the island by order of Mercury the messenger of Jupiter. During his stay, Ulysses had two sons by Calypso, Nausithous, and Nausinous. Calypso was inconsolable at the departure of Ulysses. Homer, Odyssey, bks. 7 & 5.—Hesiod, Theogony, li. 360.—Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 4, ltr. 18; Amores, bk. 2, poem 17.—Propertius, bk. 1, poem 15.