A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Cerii, a people of Etruria.

Cerilli, or Carillæ, now Cirella, a town of the Brutii near the Laus. Strabo, bk. 6.

Cerillum, a place of Lucania. Strabo, bk. 6.—Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 580.

Cerinthus, now Zero, a town of Eubœa, whose inhabitants went to the Trojan war, headed by Elphenor son of Chalcedon. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 45.—Strabo, bk. 10.——A beautiful youth, long the favourite of the Roman ladies, and especially of Sulpitia, &c. Horace, bk. 1, Statius, bk. 2, li. 81.——One of the early heretics from christianity.

Cermanus, a place where Romulus was exposed by one of the servants of Amulius. Plutarch, Romulus.

Cerne, an island without the pillars of Hercules, on the African coast. Strabo, bk. 1.—Pliny, bks. 5 & 6.

Cernes, a priest of Cybele.

Ceron, a fountain of Histiæotis, whose waters rendered black all the sheep that drank of them. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 2.

Ceropasades, a son of Phraates king of Persia, given as a hostage to Augustus.

Cerossus, a place of the Ionian sea.