Clesides, a Greek painter, about 276 years before Christ, who revenged the injuries he had received from queen Stratonice, by representing her in the arms of a fisherman. However indecent the painter might represent the queen, she was drawn with such personal beauty, that she preserved the piece, and liberally rewarded the artist.
Cleta and Phaenna, two of the Graces, according to some. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 18.
Clidēmus, a Greek who wrote the history of Attica. Vossius, historicis græcis, bk. 3.
Climax, a pass of mount Taurus, formed by the projection of a brow into the Mediterranean sea. Strabo, bk. 14.
Climĕnus, a son of Arcas descended from Hercules.
Clinias, a Pythagorean philosopher and musician, 520 years before the christian era. Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 14, ch. 23.——A son of Alcibiades, the bravest man in the Grecian fleet that fought against Xerxes. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 17.——The father of Alcibiades, killed at the battle of Coronea. Plutarch, Alcibiades.——The father of Aratus, killed by Abantidas, B.C. 263. Plutarch, Aratus.——A friend of Solon. Plutarch, Solon.
Clinippĭdes, an Athenian general in Lesbos. Diodorus, bk. 12.
Clinus of Cos, was general of 7000 Greeks in the pay of king Nectanebus. He was killed, with some of his troops, by Nicostratus and the Argives, as he passed the Nile. Diodorus, bk. 16.
Clio, the first of the muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over history. She is represented crowned with laurels, holding in one hand a trumpet, and a book in the other. Sometimes she holds a plectrum or quill with a lute. Her name signifies honour and reputation (κλεος, gloria); and it was her office faithfully to record the actions of brave and illustrious heroes. She had Hyacintha by Pierus son of Magnus. She was also mother of Hymenæus and Ialemus, according to others. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 75.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 3.—Strabo, bk. 14.——One of Cyrene’s nymphs. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 4, li. 341.
Clisithera, a daughter of Idomeneus, promised in marriage to Leucus, by whom she was murdered.