Crispīna, a Roman matron, &c. Tacitus, bk. 1, Histories, ch. 47.
Crispīnus, a pretorian, who, though originally a slave in Egypt, was, after the acquisition of riches, raised to the honours of Roman knighthood by Domitian. Juvenal, satire 1, li. 26.——A stoic philosopher, as remarkable for his loquacity as for the foolish and tedious poem which he wrote, to explain the tenets of his own sect, to which Horace alludes in the last verses of bk. 1, satire 1.
Crispus Sallustius. See: [Sallustius].——Virio, a famous orator. Quintilian, bk. 10, ch. 1.——The second husband of Agrippina.——Flavius Julius, a son of the Great Constantine, made Cæsar by his father, and distinguished for valour and extensive knowledge. Fausta, his stepmother, wished to seduce him; and when he refused, she accused him before Constantine, who believed the crime, and caused his son to be poisoned, A.D. 326.
Crissæus sinus, a bay on the coast of Peloponnesus, near Corinth, now the bay of Salona. It received its name from Crissa, a town of Phocis, situate on the bay and near Delphi.
Critāla, a town of Cappadocia. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 26.
Crithēis, a daughter of Melanippus, who became pregnant by an unknown person, and afterwards married Phemicis of Smyrna, and brought forth the poet Homer, according to Herodotus, Life of Homer.
Crithōte, a town of the Thracian Chersonesus. Cornelius Nepos.
Critias, one of the 30 tyrants set over Athens by the Spartans. He was eloquent and well-bred, but of dangerous principles, and he cruelly persecuted his enemies, and put them to death. He was killed in a battle against those citizens whom his oppression had banished. He had been among the disciples of Socrates, and had written elegies and other compositions, of which some fragments remain. Cicero, bk. 2, On Oratory.——A philosopher.——A man who wrote on republics.——Another who addressed an elegy to Alcibiades.
Crito, one of the disciples of Socrates, who attended his learned preceptor in his last moments, and composed some dialogues, now lost. Diogenes Laërtius.——A physician in the age of Artaxerxes Longimanus.——An historian of Naxus, who wrote an account of all that had happened during eight particular years of his life.——A Macedonian historian, who wrote an account of Pallene, of Persia, of the foundation of Syracuse, of the Getæ, &c.
Critobūlus, a general of Phocis, at the battle of Thermopylæ, between Antiochus and the Romans. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 20.——A physician in the age of Philip king of Macedonia. Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 37.——A son of Crito, disciple to Socrates. Diogenes Laërtius, Crito.