Cerymīca, a town of Cyprus. Diodorus.
Cerynēa, a town of Achaia.——A mountain of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 25.
Cerynītes, a river of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 25.
Cesellius Balsus, a turbulent Carthaginian, who dreamt of money, and persuaded Nero that immense treasures had been deposited by Dido in a certain place, which he described. Inquiry was made, and when no money was found, Cesellius destroyed himself. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 16, ch. 1, &c.
Cesennia, an infamous prostitute, born of an illustrious family at Rome. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 135.
Cestius, an epicurean of Smyrna, who taught rhetoric at Rhodes, in the age of Cicero.——A governor of Syria. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 5.——Severus, an informer under Nero. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 4.——Proculus, a man acquitted of an accusation of embezzling the public money. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 30.——A bridge at Rome.
Cestrīna, a part of Epirus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 23.
Cestrīnus, a son of Helenus and Andromache. After his father’s death he settled in Epirus, above the river Thyamis, and called the country Cestrina. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 11.
Cetes, king of Egypt, the same as Proteus. Diodorus, bk. 1.
Cethēgus, the surname of one of the branches of the Cornelii.——Marcus, a consul in the second Punic war. Cicero, Brutus.——A tribune at Rome, of the most corrupted morals, who joined Catiline in his conspiracy against the state, and was commissioned to murder Cicero. He was apprehended, and, with Lentulus, put to death by the Roman senate. Plutarch, Cicero, &c.——A Trojan, killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 513.——Publius Cornelius, a powerful Roman, who embraced the party of Marius against Sylla. His mistress had obtained such an ascendancy over him, that she distributed his favours, and Lucullus was not ashamed to court her smiles, when he wished to be appointed general against Mithridates.——A senator put to death for adultery under Valentinian.