Chapter Cataian to Cathos of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Cathlin of Clutha, daughter of Cathmol. Duth-Carmor of Cluba had slain Cathmol in battle, and carried off Cathlin by force, but she contrived to make her escape and craved aid of Fingal. Ossian and Oscar were selected to espouse her cause, and when they reached Rathcol (where Duth-Carmor lived), Ossian resigned the command of the battle to his son Oscar. Oscar and Duth-Carmor met in combat, and the latter fell. The victor carried the mail and helmet of Duth-Carmor to Cathlin, and Cathlin said, “Take the mail and place it high in Selma’s hall, that you may remember the helpless in a distant land.”—Ossian: Cathlin of Clutha.

Cath-Loda. The tale is this: Fingal in his youth, making a voyage to the Orkneys, was driven by stress of weather to Denmark. The king Starno invited him to a feast, but Fingal, in distrust, declined the invitation. Starno then proposed to his son Swaran to surprise Fingal in his sleep; but Swaran replied, “I shall not slay in shades. I move forth in light;” and Starno himself resolved to attack the sleeper. He came to the place where Fingal lay, but Fingal, hearing the step, started up and succeeded in binding Starno to an oak. At daybreak he discovered it to be the king, and loosing him from his bonds he said, “I have spared thy life for the sake of thy daughter, who once warned me of an ambuscade.”—Ossian: Cath-Loda (in three duans).

Cathmor, younger brother of Cairbar (“lord of Atha”), but totally unlike him. Cairbar was treacherous and malignant; Cathmor high-minded and hospitable. Cairbar murdered Cormac king of Ireland, and having inveigled Oscar (son of Ossian) to a feast, vamped up a quarrel, in which both fell. Cathmor scorned such treachery. Cathmor is the second hero of the poem called Temora, and falls by the hand of Fingal (bk. viii.).

Cathmor, the friend of strangers, the brother of redhaired Caibar. Their souls were not the same. The light of heaven was in the bosom of Cathmor. His towers rose on the banks of Atha; seven paths led to his halls; seven chiefs stood on the paths and called strangers to the feast. But Cathmor dwelt in the wood, to shun the voice of praise.—Ossian: Temora, i.

Catholic (The).

Alfonso I. of Asturias, called by Gregory III. His Catholic Majesty (693, 739-757).

Ferdinand II. of Aragon, husband of Isabella. Also called Rusé, “the wily” (1452, 1474–1516).

Isabella wife of Ferdinand II. of Aragon, so called for her zeal in establishing the Inquisition (1450, 1474–1504).

Catholic Majesty [Catholica Magestad], the special title of the kings of Spain. It was first given to king Recared (590) in the third Council of Toledo, for his zeal in rooting out the “Arian heresy.”

Cui a Deo æternum meritum nisi vero Catholico Recaredo regi? Cui a Deo æterna corona nisi vero orthodoxo Recaredo regi?—Gregory the Great: Magna Moralia, 127 and 128.

But it was not then settled as a fixed title to the kings of Spain. In 1500 Alexander VI. gave the title to Ferdinand V. king of Aragon and Castile, and from that time it became annexed to the Spanish crown.

Ab Alexandro pontifice Ferdinandus “Catholici” cognomentum accepit in posteros cum regno transfusum stabili possessione. Honorum titulos principibus dividere pontificibus Romanis datur.—Mariana: De Rebus Hesp., xxvi. 12; see also vii. 4.

Cathos, cousin of Madelon, brought up b y her uncle Gorgibus, a plain citizen in the middle rank of life. These two silly girls have had their heads turned by novels, and thinking their names commonplace, Cathos calls herself Aminta, and her cousin adopts the name of Polixena. Two gentlemen wish to marry them, but the girls consider their manners too unaffected and easy to be “good style,” so the gentlemen send their valets to represent the “marquis of Mascarille” and the “viscount of Jodelet.” The girls are delighted with these “distinguished noblemen;” but when the game has gone far enough, the masters