dark caves on the banks of the Tweed.  Colmal, daughter of Dunthalmo, dressed as a young warrior, liberated Calthon, and fled with him to Morven, to crave aid in behalf of the captive Colmar.  Accordingly, Fingal sent his son Ossian with 300 men to effect his liberation.  When Dunthalmo heard of the approach of this army, he put Colmar to death.  Calthon, mourning for his brother, was captured, and bound to an oak; but at daybreak Ossian slew Dunthalmo, cut the thongs of Calthon, gave him to Colmal, and they lived happily in the halls of Teutha.—­Ossian, Calthon and Colmal.

CALYDON (Prince of), Meleager, famed for killing the Calydonian boar.—­Apollod. i. 8. (See MELEAGER.)

  As did the fatal brand Althaea burn’d,
  Unto the prince’s heart of Calydon. 
  Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1 (1591).

Calydon, a town of Aetolia, founded by Calydon.  In Arthurian romance Calydon is a forest in the north of our island.  Probably it is what Richard of Cirencester calls the “Caledonian Wood,” westward of the Varar or Murray Frith.

CALYDONIAN HUNT.  Artemis, to punish Oeneus [E.nuce] king of Calydon, in Aetolia, for neglect, sent a monster boar to ravage his vineyards.  His son Meleager collected together a large company to hunt it.  The boar being killed, a dispute arose respecting the head, and this led to a war between the Curetes and Calydonians.

A similar tale is told of Theseus (2 syl.), who vanquished and killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near Corinth. (See KROMMYONIAN SOW.)

CALYPSO, in Telemaque, a prose-epic by Fenelon, is meant for Mde. de Montespan.  In mythology she was queen of the island Ogygia, on which Ulysses was wrecked, and where he was detained for seven years.

She essayed after his departure to bring his son Telemachus under her spell.  The lad, seeking the world through for his father, was preserved from the arts of the temptress by Mentor—­Minerva in disguise.

CALYPSO’S ISLE, Ogygia, a mythical island “in the navel of the sea.”  Some consider it to be Gozo, near Malta.  Ogygia (not the island) is Boeotia, in Greece.

CAMACHO, “richest of men,” makes grand preparations for his wedding with Quiteria, “fairest of women,” but as the bridal party are on their way, Basilius cheats him of his bride, by pretending to kill himself.  As it is supposed that Basilius is dying, Quiteria is married to him as a mere matter of form, to soothe his last moments; but when the service is over, up jumps Basilius, and shows that his “mortal wounds” are a mere pretense.—­Cervantes, an episode in Don Quixote, II. ii. 4 (1615).

CAMANCHES (3 syl.), or COMANCHES, an Indian tribe of Texas (United States).

  It is a caravan, whitening the desert where dwell the Camanches. 
  Longfellow, To the Driving Cloud.