Cratīnus, a native of Athens, celebrated for his comic writings, and his fondness for drinking. He died at the age of [♦]97 years, B.C. 431. Quintilian greatly commends his comedies, which the little remains of his poetry do not seem fully to justify. Horace, bk. 1, satire 4.—Quintilian.——A wrestler of an uncommon beauty. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 25.——A river of Asia. Pliny, bk. 37, ch. 2.
[♦] ‘97, B.C. 431 years.’ replaced with ‘97 years, B.C. 431.’
Cratippus, a philosopher of Mitylene, who, among others, taught Cicero’s son at Athens. After the battle of Pharsalia, Pompey visited the house of Cratippus, where their discourse was chiefly turned upon Providence, which the warrior blamed, and the philosopher defended. Plutarch, Pompey.—Cicero, De Officiis, bk. 1.——An historian contemporary with Thucydides. Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Craty̆les, a philosopher, preceptor to Plato after Socrates.
Crausiæ, two islands on the coast of Peloponnesus.
Crausis, the father of Philopœmen.
Crauxĭdas, a man who obtained an Olympic crown at a horse-race. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 8.
Crĕmĕra, a small river of Tuscany, falling into the Tiber, famous for the death of the 300 Fabii, who were killed there in a battle against the Veientes, A.U.C. 277. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 205.—Juvenal, satire 2, li. 155.
Cremides, a place of Bithynia. Diodorus, bk. 14.
Cremma, a town of Lycia.