CALIS’TO AND AR’CAS.  Calisto, an Arcadian nymph, was changed into a she-bear.  Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast, was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear.  Both were taken to heaven by Jupiter, and became the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major.

CALL’AGHAN O’BRALL’AGHAN (Sir), “a wild Irish soldier in the Prussian army.  His military humor makes one fancy he was not only born in a siege, but that Bellona had been his nurse, Mars his schoolmaster, and the Furies his playfellows” (act i. 1).  He is the successful suitor of Charlotte Goodchild.—­C.  Macklin, Love a la mode (1779).

CALLET, a fille publique.  Brantome says a calle or calotte is “a cap,” hence the phrase, Plattes comme des calles.  Ben Jonson, in his Magnetick Lady, speaks of “wearing the callet, the politic hood.”

Des filles du peuple et de la campagne s’appellant calles, a cause de la “cale” qui leur servait de coiffure.—­Francisque Michel.

En sa tete avoit un gros bonnet blanc, qui l’on appelle une calle, et nous autres appelons calotte, ou bonnette blanche de lagne, nouee ou bridee par dessous le menton.—­Brantome, Vies des Dames Illustres.

  A beggar in his drink
  Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

Shakespeare, Othello, act iv. sc. 2 (1611).

CALLIM’ACHUS (The Italian), Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437-1496).

CALLIR’RHOE (4 syl.), the lady-love of Chae’reas, in a Greek romance entitled The Loves of Choreas and Callirrhoe, by Char’iton (eighth century).

CALLIS’THENES (4 syl.), a philosopher who accompanied Alexander the Great on his Oriental expedition.  He refused to pay Alexander divine honors, for which he was accused of treason, and being mutilated, was chained in a cage for seven months like a wild beast.  Lysimachus put an end to his tortures by poison.

  Oh let me roll in Macedonian rays,
  Or, like Callisthenes, be caged for life,
  Rather than shine in fashions of the East. 
  N. Lee, Alexander the Great, iv.  I (1678).

CAL’MAR, son of Matha, lord of Lara (in Connaught).  He is represented as presumptuous, rash, and overbearing, but gallant and generous.  The very opposite of the temperate Connal, who advises caution and forethought.  Calmar hurries Cuthullin into action, which ends in defeat.  Connal comforts the general in his distress.—­Ossian, Fingal, i.

CAL’THON, brother of Col’mar, sons of Rathmor chief of Clutha (the Clyde).  The father was murdered in his halls by Dunthalmo lord of Teutha (the Tweed), and the two boys were brought up by the murderer in his own house, and accompanied him in his wars.  As they grew in years Dunthalmo fancied he perceived in their looks a something which excited his suspicions, so he shut them up in two separate