Chæronia, Chæronea, and Cherronea, a city of Bœotia, on the Cephisus, celebrated for a defeat of the Athenians by the Bœotians, B.C. 447, and for the victory which Philip of Macedonia obtained there with 32,000 men over the confederate army of the Thebans and the Athenians, consisting of 30,000 men, the 2nd of August, B.C. 338. Plutarch was born there. The town was anciently called Arne. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 40.—Plutarch, Pelopidas, &c.—Strabo, bk. 9.
Chalæon, a city of Locris.——A port of Bœotia.
Chales, a herald of Busiris, put to death by Hercules. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Chalcæa, a town of Caria,——of Phœnicia.
Chalcea, an island with a town near Rhodes. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 3.——A festival at Athens. See: [Panathenæa].
Chalcēdon and Chalcēdŏnia, now Kadi-Keni, an ancient city of Bithynia, opposite Byzantium, built by a colony from Megara, headed by Argias, B.C. 685. It was first called Procerastis, and afterwards Colpusa. Its situation, however, was so improperly chosen that it was called the city of blind men, intimating the inconsiderate plan of the founders. Strabo, bk. 7.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 32.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19.
Chalcidēne, a part of Syria, very fruitful. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 23.
Chalcidenses, the inhabitants of the isthmus between Teos and Erythræ.——A people near the Phasis.
Chalcideus, a commander of the Lacedæmonian fleet killed by the Athenians, &c. Thucydides, bk. 8, ch. 8.
Chalcidĭca, a country of Thrace,——of Syria.