Charuxus, one of the centaurs. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 272.
Chares, an Athenian general.——A statuary of Lindus, who was 12 years employed in making the famous Colossus of Rhodes. Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 7.——A man who wounded Cyrus when fighting against his brother Artaxerxes.——An historian of Mitylene, who wrote a life of Alexander.——An Athenian who fought with Darius against Alexander. Curtius, bk. 4, ch. 5.——A river of Peloponnesus. Plutarch, Aratus.
Charĭcles, one of the 30 tyrants set over Athens by the Lacedæmonians. Xenophon, Memorabilia, bk. 1.—Aristotle, Politics, bk. 5, ch. 6.——A famous physician under Tiberius. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 6, ch. 50.
Chariclīdes, an officer of Dionysius the younger, whom Dion gained to dethrone the tyrant. Diodorus, bk. 16.
Charĭclo, the mother of Tiresias, greatly favoured by Minerva. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 6.——A daughter of Apollo, who married the centaur Chiron. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 635.
Charidēmus, a Roman exposed to wild beasts. Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 44.——An Athenian banished by Alexander, and killed by Darius, &c.
Charĭla, a festival observed once in nine years by the Delphians. It owes its origin to this circumstance: In a great famine the people of Delphi assembled and applied to their king to relieve their wants. He accordingly distributed the little corn which he had among the noblest; but as a poor little girl, called Charila, begged the king with more than common earnestness, he beat her with his shoe, and the girl, unable to bear his treatment, hanged herself in her girdle. The famine increased; and the oracle told the king that, to relieve his people, he must atone for the murder of Charila. Upon this a festival was instituted, with expiatory rites. The king presided over this institution, and distributed pulse and corn to such as attended. Charila’s image was brought before the king, who struck it with his shoe; after which it was carried to a desolate place, where they put a halter round its neck, and buried it where Charila was buried. Plutarch, Quæstiones Græcæ.
Charilāus and Charillus, a son of Polydectes king of Sparta, educated and protected by his uncle Lycurgus. He made war against Argos, and attacked Tegea. He was taken prisoner, and released on promising that he would cease from war, an engagement which he soon broke. He died in the 64th year of his age. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 36; bk. 6, ch. 48.——A Spartan who changed the monarchical power into an aristocracy. Aristotle, Politics, bk. 5, ch. 12.
Charillus, one of the ancestors of Leutychides. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 131.
Charīni and Carīni, a people of Germany. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 14.