Chapter Camille to Cantabrian Surge of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Candaules, king of Lydia, who exposed the charms of his wife to Gygês. The queen was so indignant that she employed Gygês to murder her husband. She then married the assassin, who became king of Lydia, and reigned twenty-eight years (B. C. 716-688).

Great men are as jealous of their thoughts as the wife of king Candaules was of her charms.—Sir W. Scott: The Abbot, xviii.

Candaya (The Kingdom of), situated between the great Trapobana and the South Sea, a couple of leagues beyond cape Comorin.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, II. iii. 4 (1615).

Candide, the hero of Voltaire’s novel of the same name. All conceivable misfortunes are piled on his head, but he bears them with cynical indifference.

Voltaire says “No.” He tells you that Candide
Found life most tolerable after meals.
   —Byron: Don Juan, v. 31 (1820).

Candour (Mrs.), the beau-ideal of female backbiters.—Sheridan: The School for Scandal (1777).

The name of “Mrs. Candour” has become one of those formidable by-words which have more power in putting folly and ill-nature out of countenance than whole volumes of the wisest remonstrance and reasoning.—T. Moore.

Since the days of Miss Pope, it may be questioned whether “Mrs. Candour” has ever found a more admirable representative than Mrs. Stirling.—Dramatic Memoirs.

Canidia, a Neapolitan, beloved by the poet Horace. When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by a rhomb unsphere the moon.—Horace: Epodes v. and xvii.

Such a charm were right
Canidian.
   —Mrs. Browning: Hector in the Garden, iv.

Canmore or Great-Head. Malcolm III. of Scotland (*, 1057–1093).—Sir W. Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, i. 4.

Canning (George), statesman (1770–1827). Charles Lamb calls him—

St. Stephen’s fool, the zany of debate.
   —Sonnet in “The Champion.”

Canopos, Menelaos’s pilot, killed in the return voyage from Troy by the bite of a serpent. The town Canopos (Latin, Canopus) was built on the site where the pilot was buried.

Canossa. When, in November, 1887, the czar went to Berlin to visit the emperor of Germany, the Standard asked in a leader, “Has the czar gone to Canossa?” i.e. has he gone to eat humble pie? Canossa, in the duchy of Modena, is where (in the winter of 1076-7), the kaiser Henry IV. went to humble himself before pope Gregory VII. [Hildebrand].

Cantab, a member of the University of Cambridge. The word is a contraction of the Latin Cantabrigia.

Cantabrian Surge (The), Bay of Biscay.

She her thundering navy leads
To Calpê [Gibraltar]…or the rough
Cantabrian surge.
   —Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.