CUTTLE (Captain Edward), a great friend of Solomon Gills, ship’s instrument maker.  Captain Cuttle had been a skipper, had a hook instead of a right hand, and always wore a very hard, glazed hat.  He was in the habit of quoting, and desiring those to whom he spoke “to overhaul the catechism till they found it;” but, he added, “when found, make a note on.”  The kind-hearted seaman was very fond of Florence Dombey, and of Walter Gay, whom he called “Wal’r.”  When Florence left her father’s roof, Captain Cuttle sheltered her at the Wooden Midshipman.  One of his favorite sentiments was “May we never want a friend, or a bottle to give him.”—­C.  Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846).

("When found, make a note of,” is the motto of Notes and Queries.)

CYC’LADES (3 syl.), some twenty islands, so called from the classic legend that they circled round Delos when that island was rendered stationary by the birth of Diana and Apollo.

CYCLIC POETS, a series of epic poets, who wrote continuations or additions to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; they were called “Cyclic” because they confined themselves to the cycle of the Trojan war.

AG’IAS wrote an epic on “the return of the Greeks from Troy” (B.C. 740).

ARCTI’NOS wrote a continuation of the Iliad, describing the taking of Troy by the “Wooden Horse,” and its conflagration.  Virgil has copied from this poet (B.C. 776).

EU’GAMON wrote a continuation of the Odyssey.  It contains the adventures of Telegonos in search of his father Ulysses.  When he reached Ith’aca, Ulysses and Telemachos went against him, and Telegonos killed Ulysses with a spear which his mother Circe had given him (B.C. 568).

LES’CHES, author of the Little Iliad, in four books, containing the fate of Ajax, the exploits of Philoctetes, Neoptol’emos, and Ulysses, and the final capture of Troy (B.C. 708).

STASI’NOS, “son-in-law” of Homer.  He wrote an introduction to the Iliad.

CYCLOPS.  Their names are Brontes, Steropes, and Arges. (See SINDBAD, voy. 3).

Cyclops (The Holy).  So Dryden in the Masque of Albion and Albanius, calls Richard Rumbold, an Englishman, the chief conspirator in the “Ryehouse Plot.”  He had lost one eye, and was executed.

CYDIP’PE (3 syl), a lady courted by Acontius of Cea, but being unable to obtain her, he wrote on an apple, “I swear by Diana that Acontius shall be my husband.”  This apple was presented to the maiden, and being persuaded that she had written the words, though inadvertently, she consented to marry Acontius for “the oath’s sake.”

  Cydippe by a letter was betrayed,
  Writ on an apple to th’ unwary maid
  Ovid, Art of Love, 1.

CYL’LAROS, the horse of Pollux according to Virgil (Georg. iii. 90), but of Castor according to Ovid (Metam. xii. 408).  It was coal-black, with white legs and tail.