CYMOENT 
 
 
  Cymoent. (See CYMODOCE.) 
 
  Cym'ry, the Welsh. 
  The Welsh always called themselves "Cym- 
ry," the literal meaning of which is ' aborig- 
ines." . . . It is the same word as "Cimbri."... 
They call their language " Cymraeg," i. e, "the 
primitive tongue."-E. Williams. 
 
  Cynwgi'ros,    brother  of   the  poet 
Aschylos.   When the Persians, after the 
battle of Marathon, were pushing off from 
shore, Cynvegiros seized one of their ships 
with his right hand, which being lopped 
off, he grasped it with his left hand ; this 
being cut off, he seized it with his teeth, 
and lost his life. 
  ADMIRAL BENBOW, in an engagement 
with the French, near St. Martha, in 1701, 
had his legs and thighs shivered into 
splinters by chain-shot ; but (supported 
on a wooden frame) he remained on deck 
till Du Casse sheered off. 
  ALMEYDA, the Portuguese Governor of 
India, had his legs and thighs shattered in 
a similar way, and caused himself to be 
bound to the ship's mast, that he might 
wave his sword to cheer on the combat- 
ants. 
   JAAFE1, at the battle of Muta, carried 
 the sacred banner of the prophet. One 
 hand being lopped off, he held it with the 
 other ; this also being cut off, he held it 
 with his two stumps, and when at last his 
 head was cut off, he contrived to fall dead 
 on the banner, which was thus detained 
 till Abdallah -had time to rescue it and 
 hand it to Khaled. 
 
   Cyne'tha (3 syl.), eldest son of Cadwal- 
 Ion  (king of North Wales). He was an 
 orphan, brought up by his uncle Owen. 
 During his minority, Owen and Cynetha 
 loved each other dearly ; but when the 
 orphan came of age and claimed his inheri- 
 tance, his uncle burnt his eyes out by 
 
 
exposing them to plates of hot brass. 
Cynetha and his son Cadwallon accom- 
panied Madoc to North America, where 
the blind old man died while Madoc was 
in Wales preparing for his second voyage. 
--Southey, Madoc, i. 3 (1805). 
Cadwallonis erat primwevus jure Cynetha: 
Proh pudor! hune oculis patruus privavit Oenus. 
                           The Pentarchia. 
 
  Cynic Tub (The), Diog'en~s, the Cynic 
philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this 
fact that illusion is made in the line : 
[They] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub. 
                  Milton, Comus, 708 (1634). 
  Cy'nosure (3 syl.), the pole-star. The 
word means "the dog's tail," and is used 
to signify a guiding genius, or the observed 
of all observers. Cynosu'ra was an Iduean 
nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus (1 syl.). 
 
  Cyn'thiia, the moon or Diana, who was 
born on Mount Cynthus, in D6los. Apollo 
is called "Cynthius." 
     ... watching, in the night, 
   Beneath pale Cynthia's melancholy light. 
         Falconer, The Shipwreck, iii. 2 (1756). 
 
   Cyn'thia. So Spenser, in Colin Clout's 
 Come Home Again, calls Queen Elizabeth, 
 "whose angel's eye" was his life's sole 
 bliss, his heart's eternal treasure. Ph. 
 Fletcher, in The Purple Island, iii., also 
 calls Queen Elizabeth "Cynthia." 
 Her words were like a stream of honey fleeting. 
 Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe 
   grapes ... 
 Her looks were like beams of the morning sun 
 Forth looking thro' the windows of the east ... 
 Her thoughts were like the fumes of frank- 
   incense 
 Which from a golden censer forth doth rise. 
 Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Home Again (1591). 
 
   Cyn'thia, daughter of Sir Paul Pliant, 
 and daughter-in-law of Lady Pliant. She 
 is in love with Melle'font (2 syl.). Sir 
 
 
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