to Hermlas and Kubuios (Diogenes Laertius).
   The ATHENIANS to the poet Euripides.
   CALLIMACHOS to Sopolis, son of Dioclidês (Epigram of Callimachos, 22).
   CATULLUS to his brother (Epigram of Catullus, 103).
   DIDO to Sichaeus (Justin, xviii. 6).
   EUPOLIS and Aristodicê to their son Theotimos.
   GERMAIN DE BRIE to Hervé, the Breton, in 1512.
   ONESTOS to Timoclês (Anthologia, iii. p. 366).
   The ROMANS to Drusus in Germany, and to Alexander Severus, the emp., in Gaul (Suetonius: Life of Claudius; and the Anthologia).
   STATIUS to his father (The Sylvæ of Statius, v. Epicedium. 3.
   TIMARES to his son Teleutagoras.
   XENOCRATES to Lysidices (Anthologia).
    A cenotaph (Greek, keuoz tafoz an empty tomb) is a monument or tablet to the memory of a person whose body is buried elsewhere. A mausoleum is an imposing monument enshrining the dead body itself.

Censorius et Sapiens Cato Major was so called. ( B.C. 234-149.)

Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles French imitations of Granucci, Malespini, and Campeggi, Italian tale-writers of the seventeenth century.

Centaur (2 syl.). A huntsman. The Thessalian centaurs were half-horses, half-men. They were invited to a marriage feast, and, being intoxicated, behaved with great rudeness to the women. The Lapithae took the women's part, fell on the centaurs, and drove them out of the country.

“Feasts that Thessalian centaurs never knew.”
Thomson: Autumn.
Cent-cyne One of the upper ten; a person of high birth, a descendant of the race of kings. (Anglo-Saxon cyne, royal; cyne-dom, a kingdom; also noble, renowned, chief.)

“His wife, by birth a Cent-cyne, went out as a day-servant.”- Gaboriau: Promise of Marriage, chap. v.

Cento Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausonius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.)
    The best known are the Homerocentones (3 syl.), the Cento Virgilianus by Proba Falconia (4th century), and the Cento Nuptiälis of Ausonius. Metellus made hymns out of the Odes of Horace by this sort of patchwork. Of modern centos, the Comédie des Comédies, made up of extracts from Balzac, is pretty well known.


  By PanEris using Melati.

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