CRUSHED BY ORNAMENTS.  Tarpeia, daughter of the governer of the Roman citadel on the Saturnian Hill, was tempted by the gold on the Sabine bracelets and collars to open a gate of the fortress to the besiegers on condition that they would give her the ornaments which they wore on their arms.  Tarpeia opened the gate, and the Sabines as they passed threw on her their shields, saying, “These are the ornaments worn by the Sabines on their arms,” and the maid was crushed to death.  G. Gilfillan, alluding to Longfellow, has this erroneous allusion: 

  His ornaments, unlike those of the Sabine
  [sic] maid, have not crushed him.—­Introductory
  Essay to Longfellow.

CRUSOE (Robinson), the hero and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe.  Robinson Crusoe is a shipwrecked sailor, who leads a solitary life for many years on a desert island, and relieves the tedium of life by ingenious contrivances (1719).

(The story is based on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch sailor, who in 1704 was left by Captain Stradding on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez.  Here he remained for four years and four months, when he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers and brought to England.)

Was there ever anything written by mere man that the reader wished longer except Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote and The Pilgrim’s Progress!—­Dr. Johnson.

CRUTH-LODA, the war-god of the ancient Gaels.

On thy top, U-thormo, dwells the misty Loda:  the house of the spirits of men.  In the end of his cloudy hall bends forward Cruth-Loda of swords.  His form is dimly seen amid the wavy mists, his right hand is on his shield.—­Ossian, Cath-Loda.

CUCKOLD KING (The), Sir Mark of Cornwell, whose wife Ysolde [E. seld] intrigued with Sir Tristram (his nephew), one of the knights of the Round Table.

CUD’DIE or CUTHBERT HEADRIGG, a ploughman, in the service of Lady Bellenden of the Tower of Tillietudlem.—­Sir W. Scott, Old Mortality (time, Charles II.).

CUDDY, a herdsman, in Spenser’s Shephearde’s Calendar.

Cuddy, a shepherd, who boasts that the charms of his Buxo’ma far exceed those of Blouzelinda.  Lobbin, who is Blouzelinda’s swain, repels the boast, and the two shepherds agree to sing the praises of their respective shepherdesses, and to make Clod’dipole arbiter of their contention.  Cloddipole listens to their alternate verses, pronounces that “both merit an oaken staff,” but, says he, “the herds are weary of the songs, and so am I.”—­Gay, Pastoral, i. (1714).

(This eclogue is in imitation of Virgil’s Ecl. iii.)

CULDEES (i.e. sequestered persons), the primitive clergy of presbyterian character, established in Io’na or Icolmkill [I-columb-kill] by St. Columb and twelve of his followers in 563.  They also founded similar church establishments at Abernethy, Dunkeld, Kirkcaldy [Kirk-Culdee], etc., and at Lindesfarne, in England.  Some say as many as 300 churches were founded by them.  Augustine, a bishop of Waterford, began against them in 1176 a war of extermination, when those who could escape sought refuge in Iona, the original cradle of the sect, and were not driven thence till 1203.