Candăce, a queen of Æthiopia, in the age of Augustus, so prudent and meritorious that her successors always bore her name. She was blind of one eye. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 22.—Dio Cassius, bk. 54.—Strabo, bk. 17.
Candāvia, a mountain of Epirus, which separates Illyria from Macedonia. Lucan, bk. 6, li. 331.
Candaules, or Myrsilus, son of Myrsus, was the last of the Heraclidæ who sat on the throne of Lydia. He showed his wife naked to Gyges, one of his ministers; and the queen was so incensed, that she ordered Gyges to murder her husband, 718 years before the christian era. After this murder, Gyges married the queen and ascended the throne. Justin, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 7, &c.—Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium.
Candēi, a people of Arabia who fed on serpents.
Candiŏpe, a daughter of Œnopion, ravished by her brother.
Candy̆ba, a town of Lycia.
Canens, a nymph called also Venilia, daughter of Janus and wife to Picus king of the Laurentes. When Circe had changed her husband into a bird, she lamented him so much, that she pined away, and was changed into a voice. She was reckoned as a deity by the inhabitants. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 14, fable 9.
Canephŏria, festivals at Athens in honour of Bacchus, or, according to others, of Diana, in which all marriageable women offered small baskets to the deity, and received the name of Canephoræ, whence statues representing women in that attitude were called by the same appellation. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 4.
Canethum, a place of Eubœa.——A mountain in Bœotia.
Căniculāres dies, certain days in the summer, in which the star Canis is said to influence the season, and to make the days more warm during its appearance. Marcus Manilius.