Cratæus, conspired against Archelaus, &c. Aristotle.
Crater, a bay of Campania near Misenus.
Cratĕrus, one of Alexander’s generals. He rendered himself conspicuous by his literary fame, as well as by his valour in the field, and wrote the history of Alexander’s life. He was greatly respected and loved by the Macedonian soldiers, and Alexander always trusted him with unusual confidence. After Alexander’s death he subdued Greece with Antipater, and passed with his colleague into Asia, where he was killed in a battle against Eumenes, B.C. 321. He had received for his share of Alexander’s kingdoms, Greece and Epirus. Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes, ch. 2.—Justin, bks. 12 & 13.—Curtius, bk. 3.—Arrian.—Plutarch, Alexander.——A physician of Atticus, mentioned by Cicero, bk. 12, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 13.—Horace, bk. 2, satire 3, li. 161.——A painter whose pieces adorned the public buildings of Athens. Pliny, bk. 35, ch. 11.——An Athenian, who collected into one body all the decrees which had passed in the public assemblies at Athens.——A famous sculptor.
Crates, a philosopher of Bœotia, son of Ascondus, and disciple of Diogenes the Cynic, B.C. 324. He sold his estates, and gave the money to his fellow-citizens. He was naturally deformed, and he rendered himself more hideous by sewing sheepskins to his mantle, and by the singularity of his manners. He clothed himself as warm as possible in the summer; but in the winter, his garments were uncommonly thin, and incapable to resist the inclemency of the season. Hipparchia, the sister of a philosopher, became enamoured of him; and as he could not check her passion by representing himself as poor and deformed, he married her. He had by her two daughters, whom he gave in marriage to his disciples, after he had permitted them their company for 30 days, by way of trial. Some of his letters are extant. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.——A stoic, son of Timocrates, who opened a school at Rome, where he taught grammar. Suetonius.——A native of Pergamus, who wrote an account of the most striking events of every age, B.C. 165. Ælian, de Natura Animalium, bk. 17, ch. 9.——A philosopher of Athens, who succeeded in the school of his master Polemon.——An Athenian comic poet.
Cratesiclēa, the mother of Cleomenes, who went to Egypt in hopes of serving her country, &c. Plutarch, Cleomenes.
Cratesipŏlis, a queen of Sicyon, who severely punished some of her subjects, who had revolted at the death of Alexander her husband, &c. Polyænus, bk. 8, ch. 58.
Cratesippĭdas, a commander of the Lacedæmonian fleet against the Athenians, &c. Diodorus, bk. 13.
Cratēvas, a general of Cassander. Diodorus, bk. 19.
Crateus, a son of Minos.
Crathis, a river of Achaia, falling into the bay of Corinth. Strabo, bk. 8.——Another in Magna Græcia, whose waters were supposed to give a yellow colour to the hair and beard of those that drank them. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 315.—Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 25.—Pliny, bk. 31, ch. 2.