Cepio, or Cæpio, a man who, by a quarrel with Drusus, caused a civil war at Rome, &c.——Servilius, a Roman consul, who put an end to the war in Spain. He took gold from a temple, and for that sacrilege the rest of his life was always unfortunate. He was conquered by the Cimbrians, his goods were publicly confiscated, and he died at last in prison.
Cepion, a musician. Plutarch, de Musica.
Ceraca, a town of Macedonia. Polybius, bk. 5.
Ceracates, a people of Germany. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 4, ch. 70.
Cerambus, a man changed into a beetle, or, according to others, into a bird, on mount Parnassus, by the nymphs, before the deluge. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, fable 9.
Ceramīcus, now Keramo, a bay of Caria, near Halicarnassus, opposite Cos, receiving its name from Ceramus. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 16.——A public walk, and a place to bury those that were killed in defence of their country, at Athens. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 1, ltr. 10.
Cerămium, a place of Rome, where Cicero’s house was built. Cicero, Letters to Atticus.
Cerămus, a town at the west of Asia Minor.
Ceras, a people of Cyprus metamorphosed into bulls.
Cerăsus (untis), now Keresoun, a maritime city of Cappadocia, from which cherries were first brought to Rome by Lucullus. Marcellinus, bk. 22, ch. 13.—Pliny, bk. 15, ch. 25; bk. 16, ch. 18; bk. 17, ch. 14.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19.——Another, built by a Greek colony from Sinope. Diodorus, bk. 14.