CYNTHIA 
 
 
Paul calls her "Thy "-W. Congreve, The 
Double Dealer (1694). 
 
  Cyn'thia Ware. Auburn-haired girl 
living upon Lost Creek in Tennessee, in 
love with Evander Price, a young black- 
smith. When he is sent to the peniten- 
tiary upon a false accusation, she labors 
unceasingly for a year to obtain his par- 
don. A year after it is granted, she learns 
that he is doing well in another State and 
has forgotten her. In time, he returns, 
married and prosperous, and calls upon his 
old friends upon Lost Creek. 
  "His recollections were all vague, although at 
some reminiscence of hers he laughed jovially, 
and "lowed that in them days, Cinthy, you 
an' me had a right smart notion of keepin' com- 
pany tergether.' He did not notice how pale 
she was, and that there was often a slight spas- 
modic contraction* of her features.  She was 
busy with her spinning-wheel, as she placidly 
replied: 'Yes,--'though I always 'lowed ez I 
counted on livin' single.' "--Charles Egbert Crad- 
dock, it the Tennessee Mountains (1885). 
 
  Cyp'rian (A), a woman of loose morals; 
so called from the island Cyprus, a chief 
seat of the worship of Venus or Cyp'ria. 
 
   Cyp'rian (Brother), a Dominican monk 
at the monastery of Holyrood.-Sir W. 
Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry 
IV.). 
 
  Cyrena'ic Shell (The), the lyre or 
strain of Callini'achos, a Greek poet of 
Alexandria, in Egypt. Six of his hymns 
in hexameter verse are still extant. 
            For you the Cyrenaic shell 
      Behold I touch revering. 
               Akenside, iHymn to the Naiads. 
 
  Cyr'ie (St.), the saint to whom sailors 
address themselves. The St. Elmo of the 
Welsh. 
 
 
      The weary mariners 
              Called on St. Cyric's aid. 
                  Southey, Madoc, i. 4 (1805). 
 
  Cyrus and    Tom'yris.    Cyrus, after 
subduing the eastern parts of Asia, was de- 
feated by Tomyris queen of the Massage't.T, 
in Scythia. Tomyris cut off his head, and 
threw it into a vessel filled with human 
blood, saying, as she did so, "There, drink 
thy fill." Dantý refers to this incident in 
his Purgatory, xii. 
Consyder Syrus ... 
He whose huge power no man might overthrowe, 
Tom'yris Queen with great despite hath slowe, 
His head dismembered from his mangled corps 
Herself she cast into a vessel fraught 
With clotted bloud of them that felt her force. 
And with these words a just reward she taught- 
"Drynke now thy fyll of thy desired draught." 
       T. Sackville, A Mirrour for Magistraytes 
             (" The Complaynt," 1587). 
 
 "Cythere'a, Venus; so       called from 
 Cyth'ra (now Cerigo), a mountainous 
 island of Laco'nia, noted for the worship 
 of Aphrodite (or Venus). The tale is that 
 Venus and Mars, having formed an illicit 
 affection for each other, were caught in a 
 delicate net made by Vulcan, and exposed 
 to the ridicule of the court of Olympus. 
          He the fate [May sing] 
    Of naked Mars with Cytherea chained. 
               Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads. 
 
  Cyze'nis, the infamous daughter of 
Diomed, who killed every one that fell 
into her clutches, and compelled fathers to 
eat their own children. 
 
  Czar (Ccesar), a title first assumed in 
Russia by Ivan III., who, in 1472, married 
a princess of the imperial Byzantine line. 
He also introduced the double-headed 
black eagle of Byzantium as the national 
symbol. The official style of the Russian 
autocrat is Samoderjetz. 
 
 
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