Drayton, Polyolbion, xii. 3 (1613).

CONSTANTINOPLE (Little), Kertch was so called by the Genoese from its extent and its prosperity.  Demosthenes calls it “the granary of Athens.”

CONSUELO (4 syl.), the impersonation of moral purity in the midst of temptations.  Consuelo is the heroine of a novel so called by George Sand (i.e.  Mde.  Dudevant).

CONTEMPORANEOUS DISCOVERIES.  Goethe and Vicq d’Azyrs discovered at the same time the intermaxillary bone.  Goethe and Von Baer discovered at the same time Morphology.  Goethe and Oken discovered at the same time the vertebral system. The Penny Cyclopaedia and Chambers’s Journal were started nearly at the same time.  The invention of printing is claimed by several contemporaries.  The processes called Talbotype and Daguerreotype were nearly simultaneous discoveries.  Leverrier and Adams discovered at the same time the planet Neptune.

[Illustration] This list may be extended to a very great length.

CONTENTED MAN (The).  Subject of a poem by Rev. John Adams in 1745

  No want contracts the largeness of his thoughts,
  And nothing grieves him but his conscious faults,
  He makes his GOD his everlasting tower
  And in His firm munition stands secure.

CONTEST (Sir Adam).  Having lost his first wife by shipwreck, he married again after the lapse of some twelve or fourteen years.  His second wife was a girl of 18, to whom he held up his first wife as a pattern and the very paragon of women.  On the wedding day this first wife made her appearance.  She had been saved from the wreck; but Sir Adam wished her in heaven most sincerely.

Lady Contest, the bride of Sir Adam, “young, extremely lively, and prodigiously beautiful.”  She had been brought up in the country, and treated as a child, so her naivete was quite captivating.  When she quitted the bride-groom’s house, she said, “Good-by, Sir Adam, good-by.  I did love you a little, upon my word, and should be really unhappy if I did not know that your happiness will be infinitely greater with your first wife.”

Mr. Contest, the grown-up son of Sir Adam, by his first wife.—­Mrs. Inchbald, The Wedding Day (1790).

CONTINENCE.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT having gained the battle of Issus (B.C. 333), the family of King Darius fell into his hands; but he treated the ladies as queens, and observed the greatest decorum towards them.  A eunuch, having escaped, told Darius that his wife remained unspotted, for Alexander had shown himself the most continent and generous of men.—­Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, iv. 20.

SCIPIO AFRICANUS, after the conquest of Spain, refused to touch a beautiful princess who had fallen into his hands, “lest he should be tempted to forget his principles.”  It is, moreover, said that he sent her back to her parents with presents, that she might marry the man to whom she was betrothed.  A silver shield, on which this incident was depicted, was found in the river Rhone by some fishermen in the seventeenth century.