Martin Chuzzlewit, jun., the hero of the tale called Martin Chuzzlewit, grandson to old Martin.  His nature has been warped by bad training, and, at first, he is both selfish and exacting; but the troubles and hardships he undergoes in “Eden” completely transform him, and he becomes worthy of Mary Graham, whom he marries.—­C.  Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

CYNDO’NAX, a chief druid, whose tomb (with a Greek inscription) was discovered near Dijon, in 1598.

CIACCO’ (2 syl.), a glutton, spoken to by Dante, in the third circle of hell, the place in which gluttons are consigned to endless woe.  The word means “a pig,” and is not a proper name, but only a symbolical one.—­Dante, Hell, vi. (1300).

  Ciacco, thy dire affliction grieves me much.
  Hell, vi.

CICERO.  When the great Roman orator was given up by Augustus to the revenge of Antony, it was a cobbler who conducted the sicarii to Formiae, whither Cicero had fled in a litter, intending to put to sea.  His bearers would have fought, but Cicero forbade them, and one Herennius has the unenviable notoriety of being his murderer.

It was a cobbler that set the murderers on Cicero.—­Ouida, Ariadne, i. 6.

Cicero of the British Senate, George Canning (1770-1827).

Cicero of France, Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742).

Cicero of Germany, John, Elector of Brandenburg (1455, 1486-1499).

Cicero’s Mouth, Philippe Pot, Prime Minister of Louis XL (1428-1494).

The British Cicero, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778).

The Christian Cicero, Lucius Coelius Lactantius (died 330).

The German Cicero, Johann Sturm, printer and scholar (1507-1589).

CICELY (Sweet).  Heroine of novel by Marietta Holley, better known as “Josiah Allen’s wife.” (1885).

Cicely Humphreys.  Putative daughter of Bothwell and Marie Stuart; who is made the companion of her mother’s journeyings and captivity.—­C.M.  Yonge, Unknown to History (1885).

CYCLINIUS, mistake in one only manuscript of Chaucer for Cyllenius, a name of Mercury, from his birth-place, Mt.  Cyllene in Arcadia.

Cyclinius (Cyllenius) riding in his chevauchie.  Chaucer, Complaint of Mars and Venus.

CID (The) = Seid or Signior, also called CAMPEADOR [Cam.pa’.dor] or “Camp hero.”  Rodrigue Diaz de Bivar was surnamed “the Cid.”  The great hero of Castille, he was born at Burgos, 1030, and died, 1099.  He signalized himself by his exploits in the reigns of Ferdinand, Sancho II., and Alphonso VI. of Leon and Castille.  In the wars between Sancho II. and his brother (Alphonso VI.), he sided with the former; and, on the assassination of Sancho, was disgraced, and quitted the court.  He then assembled his vassals and marched against the Moors, whom he conquered in several battles, so that