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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt:...a, um, of Ciffcla, ae,f. a country on the south coast of Asia Minor, Natalia, nearly opposite to the Island Cyprus, said to have received this name from Cilix, a son of Agenor. Ink. Cilices, um, ace. as, CXlicismus, i, m. the Cilician manner of speaking. CimmSrli, orum, a people on the western coast of Ita!la, Italy, not far from Baia (2 syl.), who, according to Homer, lived in perpetual darkness, an expression probably intended to denote that the inhabitants, in place of houses, had caves from which they issued only during the night, to rob, and commit other acts of atrocity. A low gloomy place near Bai;c (2 syl.), which overhanging mountains deprived of the solar rays, seems to have suggested to the ancient poets, all the horrid images which are found in their descriptions of the Infernal Regions. It is certain, that Homer makes it the entrance to the abodes of the dead; a fiction which has been adopted by Virgil, and other poets of antiquity, jtqj. Cimmerlus, a, um. Cimmerum tenehrtE, perpetual darkness. The residence of the CimmSrli and position of the HespSrldes, appear to have been differently understood by different authors. They moved westward, as the ancients became acquainted with the geography of the world in that direction. Cinyphius, a, um, of Cinyps, el, Clnyphus, i, m. a river of Libya between the two Syrtes: also Libyan, African. A people called Cinyphes, um, dwelt on the banks of this river. Cithaeron, onis, m. Elatias, a mountain of Bceotia, sacred to Bacchus, on which Actaeon was torn in pieces by his own dogs. See Parnasus. Clanis, is, ace. in, a Centaur killed by Theseus (2 syl.). Clanis, is, ace. in, the brother of Clytlus, whom Perseus (2 syl.) killed, transfixing both his thighs with an ashen spear. Clarius, i, a surname of Apollo, f...