Critodēmus, an ancient historian. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 76.
Critognātus, a celebrated warrior of Alesia, when Cæsar was in Gaul. Cæsar, Gallic War.
Critolāus, a citizen of Tegea in Arcadia, who, with two brothers, fought against the three sons of Demostratus of Pheneus, to put an end to the long war between their respective nations. The brothers of Critolaus were both killed, and he alone remained to withstand his three bold antagonists. He conquered them; and when, at his return, his sister deplored the death of one of his antagonists to whom she was betrothed, he killed her in a fit of resentment. The offence deserved capital punishment; but he was pardoned, on account of the services he had rendered his country. He was afterwards general of the Achæans, and it is said that he poisoned himself, because he had been conquered at Thermopylæ by the Romans. Cicero, de Natura Deorum.——A peripatetic philosopher of Athens, sent ambassador to Rome, &c., 140 B.C. Cicero, bk. 2, On Oratory.——An historian who wrote about Epirus.
Crius, a soothsayer, son of Theocles. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 13.——A man of Ægina, &c. Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 50.——A river of Achaia, called after a giant of the same name. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 27.
Crobialus, a town of Paphlagonia.
Crobyzi, a people of Thrace.
Crŏcăle, one of Diana’s attendants. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3.
Croceæ, a town of Laconia. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 21.
Crocodilopŏ1is, a town of Egypt, near the Nile, above Memphis. The crocodiles were held there in the greatest veneration; and they were so tame, that they came to feed from the hand of their feeders. It was afterwards called Arsinoe. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 69.—Strabo, bk. 17.
Crocus, a beautiful youth enamoured of the nymph Smilax. He was changed into a flower of the same name, on account of the impatience of his love, and Smilax was metamorphosed into a yew tree. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 283.