Crusis, a place near Olynthos.
Crustŭmĕrium and Crustumeria, a town of the Sabines. Livy, bk. 4, ch. 9; bk. 42, ch. 34.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 631.
Crustūmīnum, a town of Etruria, near Veii, famous for pears; whence the adjective Crustumia. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, li. 88.
Crustŭmium, Crustunus, and Crusturnenius, now Conca, a river flowing from the Apennines by Ariminum. Lucan, bk. 2, li. 406.
Crynis, a river of Bithynia.
Crypta, a passage through mount Pausilypus. See: [Pausilypus].
Cteătus, one of the Grecian chiefs before Troy. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 4.
Ctemene, a town of Thessaly.
Ctenos, a harbour of Chersonesus Taurica.
Ctesias, a Greek historian and physician of Cnidos, taken prisoner by Artaxerxes Mnemon at the battle of Cunaxa. He cured the king’s wounds, and was his physician for 17 years. He wrote a history of the Assyrians and Persians, which Justin and Diodorus have partially preferred to that of Herodotus. Some fragments of his compositions have been preserved by Photius, and are to be found in Wesseling’s edition of Herodotus. Strabo, bk. 1.—Athenæus, bk. 12.—Plutarch, Artaxerxes.——A sycophant of Athens.——An historian of Ephesus.