Chapter Custance to Czar of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

, and partially restored his depressed spirits. In the third year of Cormac’s reign, Torlath, son of Cantela, rebelled. Cuthullin gained a complete victory over him at the lake Lego, but was mortally wounded in the pursuit by a random arrow. Cuthullin was succeeded by Nathos; but the young king was soon dethroned by the rebel Cairbar, and murdered.—Ossian: Fingal and The Death of Cuthullin.

Cutler (Sir John), a royalist, who died 1699, reduced to the utmost poverty.

Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall,
For very want he could not build a wall.
His only daughter in a stranger’s power,
For very want he could not pay a dower.
A few grey hairs his reverend temples crowned,
’Twas very want that sold them for two pound.…
Cutler and Brutus, dying, both exclaim,
“Virtue and Wealth, what are ye but a name?”
   —Pope: Moral Essays, iii. (1709).

Cutpurse (Moll), Mary Frith, the heroine of Middleton’s comedy called The Roaring Girl (1611), She was a woman of masculine vigour, who not unfrequently assumed man’s attire. This notorious cut-purse once attacked general Fairfax on Hounslow Heath, but was arrested and sent to Newgate. She escaped, however, by bribing the turnkey, and died of dropsy at the age of 75. Nathaniel Field introduces her in his drama called Amends for Ladies (1618).

Cuttle (Captain Edward), a great friend of Solomon Gills, ship’s instrument maker. Captain Cuttle had been a skipper, had a hook instead of a right hand, and always wore a very hard glazed hat. He was in the habit of quoting, and desiring those to whom he spoke “to overhaul the catechism till they found it;” but, he added, “when found, make a note of.” The kindhearted seaman was very fond of Florence Dombey, and of Walter Gay, whom he called “Wal’r.” When Florence left her father’s roof, captain Cuttle sheltered her at the Wooden Midshipman. One of his favourite sentiments was “May we never want a friend, or a bottle to give him!”—Dickens: Dombey and Son (1846).

(“When found, make a note of” is the motto of Notes and Queries.)

Cyanean Rocks, the Symplegadês (which see), so called from their deep greenish-blue colour.

Here are those hard rocks of trap of a greenish-blue coloured with copper, and hence called the Cyanean.—Olivier.

Cyclades , some twenty islands, so called from the classic legend that they circled round Dêlos when that island was rendered stationary by the birth of Diana and Apollo.

Cyclic Poets, a series of epic poets, who wrote continuations or additions to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; they were called “Cylic” because they confined themselves to the cycle of the Trojan war.

Agias wrote an epic on “the return of the Greeks from Troy” (B. C. 740).

Arctinos wrote a continuation of the Iliad, describing the taking of Troy by the “Wooden Horse,” and its conflagration. Virgil has copied from this poet (B. C. 776).

Eugamon wrote a continuation of the Odyssey. It contains the adve ntures of Telegonos in search of his father Ulysses. When he reached Ithaca, Ulysses and Telemachos went against him, and Telegonos killed Ulysses with a spear which his mother Circê had given him (B. C. 568).

Leschês, author of Little Iliad, in f our books, containing the fate of Ajax, the exploits of Philoctetês, Neoptolemos, and Ulysses, and the final capture of Troy (B. C. 708).

Stasinos, “son-in-law” of Homer. He wrote an introduction to the Iliad.

Cyclops. Their names are Brontês, Steropês, and Argês. (See Sinbad, voy. 3.)

Cyclops (The Holy). So Dryden, in the Masque of Albion and Albanius, calls Richard Rumbold, an Englishman, the chief conspirator in the “Ryehouse Plot.” He had lost one eye, and was executed.