CLYM OF THE CLOUGH ("Clement of the Cliff"), noted outlaw, associated with Adam Bell and William of Cloudesley, in Englewood Forest, near Carlisle.  When William was taken prisoner at Carlisle, and was about to be hanged, Adam and Clym shot the magistrates, and rescued their companion.  The mayor with his posse went out against them, but they shot the mayor, as they had done the sheriff, and fought their way out of the town.  They then hastened to London to beg pardon of the king, which was granted them at the queen’s intercession.  The king, wishing to see a specimen of their shooting, was so delighted at their skill that he made William a “gentleman of fe,” and the other two “yemen of his chambre.”—­Percy, Reliques ("Adam Bell,” etc., I. ii. 1).

CLY’TIE, a water-nymph in love with Apollo.  Meeting with no return, she was changed into a sunflower, or rather a tournesol, which still turns to the sun, following him through his daily course.

The sunflower does not turn to the sun.  On the same stem may be seen flowers in every direction, and not one of them shifts the direction in which it has first opened.  T. Moore (1814) says: 

  The sunflower turns on her god when he sets,
  The same look which she turned when he rose.

This may do in poetry, but it is not correct.  The sunflower is so called simply because the flower resembles a pictured sun.

Lord Thurlow (1821) adopted Tom Moore’s error, and enlarged it: 

  Behold, my dear, this lofty flower,
  That now the golden sun receives;
  No other deity has power,
  But only Phoebus, on her leaves;
  As he in radiant glory burns,
  From east to west her visage turns.

The Sunflower.

CLYTUS, an old officer in the army of Philip of Macedon, and subsequently in that of Alexander.  At a banquet, when both were heated with wine, Clytus said to Alexander, “Philip fought men, but Alexander women,” and after some other insults, Alexander in his rage stabbed the old soldier; but instantly repented and said: 

  What has my vengeance done? 
  Who is it thou hast slain?  Clytus?  What was he
  The faithfullest subject, worthiest counsellor,
  The bravest soldier.  He who saved my life
  Fighting bare-headed at the river Granic. 
  For a rash word, spoke in the heat of wine,
  The poor, the honest Clytus thou hast slain,—­
  Clytus, thy friend, thy guardian, thy preserver!

N. Lee, Alexander the Great, iv. 2 (1678).

CNE’US, the Roman officer in command of the guard set to watch the tomb of Jesus, lest the disciples should steal the body, and then declare that it had risen from the dead.—­Klopstock, The Messiah, xiii. (1771).  CO’AN (The), Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine” (B.C. 460-357).

  ... the great Coan, him whom Nature made
  To serve the costliest creature of her tribe [man].