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fufpended on the pivot in the centre of the circle. CircumfeThere are alfo two fights to ferew on, and flide up down the index; as alfo a fpangle and focket ferexed on the back fide of the circle for putting the head of the staff in.

Circumci ed; the inftrument was generally a knife of tone. fion The child is ufually circumcifed at home, where the Circumfe. father, or godfather, holds him in his arms, while the operator takes hold of the prepuce with one hand, and with the other cuts it off; a third perfon holds a porringer, with fand in it, to catch the blood; then the operator applies his mouth to the part, and, having fucked the blood, fpits it into a bowl of wine, and throws a flyptic powder upon the wound. This ceremony was ufually accompanied with great rejoicings and feaft ing; and it was at this time that the child was named in prefence of the company. The Jews invented feveral fuperftitious cuftoms at this ceremony, fuch as placing three ftools, one for the circumcifor, the fecond for the perfon who holds the child, and the third for Elijah, who, they fay, aflifts invifibly at the ceremony, &c.

Plate CXXXV.

The Jews diftinguished their profelytes into two forts, according as they became circumcifed or not: thofe who fubmitted to this rite were looked upon as children of Abraham, and obliged to keep the laws of Mofes; the uncircumcifed were only bound to obferve the precepts of Noah, and were called noachida.

The Turks never circumcife till the feventh or eighth year, as having no notion of its being neceffary to falvation. The Perfians circumcife their boys at 13, and their girls from 9 to 15. Thofe of Madagascar cut the flesh at three feveral times; and the most zealous of the relations prefent, catches hold of the preputium and fwallows it.

Circumcifion is practifed on women by cutting off the foreskin of the clitoris, which bears a near refemblance and analogy to the preputium of the male penis. We are told that the Egyptian captive-women were circumcifed; and alfo the fubjects of Prefter John. CIRCUMCISION is alfo the name of a feaft, celebrated on the firit of January, in commemoration of the circumcifion of our Saviour.

CIRCUMDUCTION, in Scots law. When parties in a fuit are allowed a proof of alledgeances; after the time limited by the judge for taking that proof is elapfed, either party may apply for circumduction of the time of proving; the effect of which is, that no proof can afterwards be brought, and the caufe must be determined as it flood when circumduction was obtained.

How to obferve the Quantity of an Angle ly the Cir- Ibid. cumferentor. Let it be required to find the quantity of the angle EKG; first place your inftrument at K, with the flower-de-lace of the chart towards you; then direct your fights to E, and obferve what degrees are cut by the fouth end of the needle, which let be 296; then, turning the inftrument about, direct your fights to G, noting then alfo what degrees are cut by the fouth end of the needle, which fuppofe 247. This done, always fubtract the leffer from the greater, as in this example, 247 from 296, the remainder is 49 degrees, which is the true quantity of the angle EKG.

A circumferentor is made by Mr Jones of Holburn on an improved conftruction. From a very fimple contrivance, it is rendered fufficient to take angles with the accuracy of a common theodolite; and by it angles of altitude and depreffion may be obferved as readily as horizontal ones. The improvement chiefly confifts in an arm or index (G), fo applied to the centre of the compaís box, and within it, that, at the time of obferving, by only flipping a pin (p) out, the circle of degrees alone may move round, and leave the index (G) fixed. This index will remain ftationary, from its being attached to the focket that fcrews on the head of the ftaffs. On the end of this index, next the degrees in the box, there is graduated a nonius fcale, by which the circle of 360 degrees is fubdivided into 5 minutes or lefs if defired. To take angles of altitude or depreffions, the inftrument is turned down on its ball and focket into a perpendicular pofition, and adjusted to its level by a plumb line (1), that is hung on a pin at the back of the box, and made to coincide with a mark made thereon. Then by looking through the fmall fight holes (s) purpofely made, the angles are fhown on the circle of degrees by the nonius as before. The arms (AA) of the inftrument flip off (at. B), and the whole packs into a cafe but 5 inches fquare and 3 deep.

CIRCUMFLEX, in grammar, an accent, ferving to note, or diftinguish, a fyllable of an intermediate found between acute and grave; and generally fomewhat long.-The Greeks had three accents, the acute, the grave, and the circumflex; formed thus,

CIRCUMFERENCE, in a general fente, denotes the line or lines bounding a plane figure. However, it is generally ufed in a more limited fenfe, for the,,. In Latin, English, French, &c. the circumcurve line which bounds a circle, and otherwife called a periphery; the boundary of a right-lined figure being expreffed by the term perimeter.

CIRCUMFERENTOR, an inftrument ufed by furveyors for taking angles.

It confifls of a brals index and circle, all of a piece. in Vol. IV. The index is commonly about 14 inches long, and an inch and a half broad; the diameter of the circle is about feven inches. On this circle is made a chart, whofe meridian line anfwers to the middle of the breadth of the index, and is divided into 360 degrees. There is a brafs ring foldered on the circumference of the circle, on which fcrews another ring, with a flat glafs in it, fo as to form a kind of box for the needle,

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flex is made thus .-The acute raifes the voice, and the grave falls or lowers it: the chicumflex is a kind of undulation, or wavering of the voice, between the two. It is feldom used among the moderns, unlefs to fhow the omiffion of a letter which made the fyllable long and open; a thing much more frequent in the French than among us: thus they write pite for pafte;. tite for tefle; fames for fufines, &c. They alto ule the circumflex in the participles; fome of their authors writing connet, peu, others conna, pa, &c. Father Buffier is at a lofs for the reason of the circumflex on this occafion.

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CIR the torus of the fpiral line of the Ionic order. CIRCUMVOLUTION, in architecture, denotes Circumvo

CIR Circumgy- the other two accents a in one-But the copists, chan[ 25 ] ration ging the form of the characters, and introducing the running-hand, changed alfo the form of the circumvallation. flex accent; and inftead of making a juft angle, rounded it off, adding a dash, through too much hafte; and thus formed ans, laid horizontally, which produced this figure, instead of this ^.

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CIRCUMGYRATION, denotes the whirling motion of any body round a centre; fuch is that of the planets round the fun.

CIRCUMLOCUTION, an ambages, or tour of words, used either when a proper term is not at hand, to exprefs a thing naturally and immediately by; or when one chooses not to do it, out of refpect, or for fome other reason. The word comes from circumloquor," I speak about.”

CIRCUMLOCUTION, in oratory, is the avoiding of fomething difagreeable or inconvenient to be exprefs. ed in direct terms; by intimating the fenfe thereof in a kind of paraphrafe, fo conceived as to foften or break the force thereof,

Thus Cicero, unable to deny that Clodius was flain by Milo, owns it, with this circumlocution, "Milo's "fervants being prevented from affifting their mafter, "who was reported to be killed by Clodius; they, in "his abfence, and without his privity, or confent, did "what every body would expect from their own fer"vants on fuch an occafion."

CIRCUMPOLAR STARS, an appellation given to those ftars, which, by reafon of their vicinity to the pole, move round it without fetting.

CIRCUMPOTATIO, in antiquity, a funeral feaft provided in honour of the dead. This was very frequent among the ancient Romans, as well as among the Athenians. Solon at Athens, and the decemviri at Rome, endeavoured to reform this cuftom, thinking it abfurd that mirth and drunkenness should mingle with forrow and grief.

CIRCUMSCRIBED, in geometry, is faid of a figure which is drawn round another figure, fo that all its fides or planes touch the infcribed figure.

CIRCUMSCRIPTION, in natural philofophy, the termination, bounds, or limits, of any natural body. CIRCUMSTANCE, a particularity, which, tho' not effential to any action, yet doth fome way affect it.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, in law, or the doctrine of prefumption, takes place next to pofitive proof: circumftances which either neceffarily or ufually attend facts of a particular nature, that cannot be demonftratively evinced, are called prefumptions, and are only to be relied on till the contrary be actually proved.

CIRCUMSTANTIBUS, in law, a term ufed for fupplying and making up the number of jurors (in cafe any impanelled appear not, or appearing are challanged by any party), by adding to them fo many of the perfons prefent as will make up the number, in cafe they are properly qualified.

CIRCUMVÁLLATION, or Line of CIRCUMV ALLATION, in the art of war, is a trench bordered with a parapet, thrown up quite round the befieger's camp, by way of fecurity against any army that may attempt to relieve the place, as well as to prevent defertion.

VOL. V. Part I.

round or oval, ufed for the exhibiting of shows to the
CIRCUS, in antiquity, a large building, either
people. Some derive the word from Circe, to whom
Tertullian attributes the invention. Caffiodorus says,
ferves, at firft had no other circus but that made by
Circus comes à circuitu. The Romans, Servius ob-
the Tiber on one fide, and a palisade of naked swords
term ludi circenfes, quafi circum enfes. But Scaliger ri-
on the other. Hence, according to Ifidore, came the
dicules that etymology.

ed at one end; encompaffed with porticos, and fur-
The Roman circus was a large oblong edifice, arch-
nifhed with rows of feats, placed afcending over each
minence, with obelisks, ftatues, and pofts at each end.
other. In the middle was a kind of foot-bank, or e-
This ferved them for the courfes of their bige and qua-
drige. There were no less than ten circules at Rome:
the largest was built by the elder Tarquin, called
Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine
circumference, or because the great games were cele-
mounts. It was fo called, either because of its vaft
brated in it; or again, because it was confecrated to the
great gods, viz. to Vertumnus, Neptune, Jupiter, Ju-
nyfius Halicarnaffenfis fays that it was three ftadia and
no, Minerva, and the Dii Penates of Rome. Dio-
meafures, according to Pliny, allowing to the Roman
a half in length, and four jugera broad; and thefe
ftadia 625 Roman feet, each of which is 12 inches,
what more than three English furlongs; and as to the
will give for the length 2187 Roman feet, or fome-
breadth, allowing for each of the jugera 240 Roman
feet, it will be 960 Roman feet. It was beautified
and enlarged by the Roman emperors, fo as to feat
250,000 spectators. The moft magnificent circufes
were thofe of Auguftus and Nero.
fome remains of the circufes at Rome, at Nifmes, and
There are fill
other places. The Romans were exceffively fond of
the games exhibited in the circus: witnefs that verfe
in Juvenal,

Atque duas tantum res anxius optat,
Panem & circenfes

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Games, were combats celebrated in the circus, in ho-
The Games of the CIRCUS, which fome call Circenfian
called Confualia. They were alfo called Roman Games,
nour of Confus the god of councils; and thence alfo
Ludi Romani, either on account of their antiquity, as
being coeval with the Roman people, or because esta-
blifhed by the Romans: and the games held there, the
great games, ludi magni, because celebrated with more
expence and magnificence than others; and because
their Confus.-Thofe who fay they were inftituted in
held in honour of the great god Neptune, who was
honour of the fun, confound the pompa circenfis, or
proceffion of the circus, with the games.

der, and re-established by Romulus: the pomp, or
The games of the circus were inftituted by Evan-
prelude thereof, and confiling of a fimple cavalcade of
proceffion, was only a part of the games, making the
chariots. Till the time of the elder Tarquin, they
were held in an ifland of the Tiber; and were called
they took their name therefrom; as being constantly
Roman games: after that prince had built the circus,
held there. There were fix kinds of exercises in the
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Cirencefter circus: the fir was wrestling, and fighting with fwords, with ftaves, and with pikes; the fecond was racing the third, faltatio, dancing; the fourth, difci, quoits, arrows, and ceftus: all which were on foot the fifth was horfe-courfing; the fixth, courfes of chariots, whether with two horfes or with four. In this laft exercife, the combatants were at fiift divided into two fquadrons or quadrils; then into four; each bearing the names of the colours they wore; fuctio alba, ruffea, &c. At first there was only white and red; then green was added, and blue. Domitian added two more colours, but they did not continue. It was Oenomaus who first invented this method of diftinguishing the quadrils by colours. The green was for those who reprefented the earth; the blue for the fea, &c.

CIRENCESTER, an ancient town of Gloucefter fhire in England. It was ftrongly fortified with walls and a caftle in the time of the Romans. The ruins of the walls and street are, or were lately, to be feen in the adjacent meadows, where many Roman coins, chequered pavements, and infcriptions on marble, have been found. Two of the Roman confular ways crofs each other at this town. The foffe-way, which comes from Scotland, paffes through this county and town to Totnels in Devonshire. The other, called Irminfreet, comes from Gloucefter, and runs along to Southampton. Not many years ago they difcovered, hy digging in a meadow near the town, an ancient building under ground, 50 feet long, 40 broad, and 4 high, and fupported by 100 brick pillars, curioufly inlaid with ftones of various colours, fuppofed to have been a Roman bath. Cirencester has now but one church, in the windows of which are the remains of very valuable painted glafs. The town is governed by 2 high conftables, and 14 wards-men, who govern 7 diftinct wards; and it fends two members to parliament. It has a free school, a charity fchool, with feveral almshoufes; and is feated on the river Churn, 36 miles north-east of Bristol, and 88 weft by north of London. W. Long. o. 2. N. Lat. 51. 42.

CIRENZA, a city of Naples, capital of the Balilicate, with an archbishop's fee. It was formerly a confiderable place, but is now of fmall confequence. It is feated on the river Brandano, at the foot of the Apennine mountains, in E. Long. 16. 44. N. Lat. 40. 48.

CIRO-FERRI, an excellent Italian painter and architect, was born at Rome in 1614, and was the dif ciple of Peter de Cortona, whofe defigns he imitated with fuch exactnefs, that it is difficult to diftinguish them. He was efteemed by Pope Alexander VII. and his three fucceffors, and died at Rome in 1689.

CIRRUS, or CIRRHUS, in botany, a clafper or tendril; that fine fpiral ftring or fibre put out from the foot-ftalks, by which fome, plants, as the ivy and vine, faften themselves to walls, pales, or trees, for fupport. The term is fynonymous to the capreolus, clavicula, and viticulus of other botanita: and is ranked by Linnaeus among the fulcra, or parts of plants that ferve for protection, fupport, and defence.

Tendrils are fometimes placed oppofite to the leaves, as in the vine; fometimes at the fide of the foot-flalk

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of the leaf, as in paffion-flower; and fometimes, as in Cirrus winged pea, pifum ochrus, they are emitted from the leaves themfelves. With refpect to compofition, they are either fimple, that is, compofed of one fibre or chord, as in the vetch; or compound, that is, confift of two, three, or more, as in the everlafting pea. Bitter fweet, folanum, dulcamara, bignonia, and ivy, fend forth tendrils which plant themfelves like roots in the adjacent walls, or the bark of the neighbouring trees. Clafpers, fays the ingenious Dr Grew, are like trunk-roots, a mean betwixt a root and a trunk, but a compound of both, as may be gathered from their circumvolutions, in which they mutually afcend and defcend. In the mounting of the trunk, continues the fame author, clafpers ferve for fupport. Thus, in vines, the branches being very long, fragile, and flender, would be liable to frequent breaking, unless, by means of their clafpers, they were mutually contained together; fo that the whole care is divided betwixt the gardener and nature: the former, with his ligaments of leather, fecures the main branches; and nature, with thofe of her own providing, fecures the lefs. Their aptitude to this end is feen in their convolutions, a motion not proper to any other part: and also in their toughnefs, which is fo much the more remarkable, as they are flenderer than the branches from which they proceed. In the trailing of the trunk, tendrils ferve for ftabilement and fhade: thus, in cucumbers, the trunk and branches being long and fragile, would be driven to and fro by the winds, to the great prejudice both of themfelves and their tender fruits, were they not, by these ligaments, held faft together, and preferved in affociation and good fellowship. The fame clafpers ferve likewife for thade: fo that a natural arbour is formed by the branches of the cucumber, in the fame manner as an artificial one is made by tangling together the twigs of trees; for the branches, by the linking of their clafpers, being couched together, the tender fruits lie under the umbrage of a bower made of their own leaves. Moft of the pea-bloom flowers have twining clafpers, that is, which wind to the right and back again.

CIRRI, in ichthyology, certain oblong and foft appendages, not unlike little worms, hanging from the under jaws or mouths of fome fishes: thele cirri, commonly tranflated beards, afford marks to diftinguifh the different fpecies of the fifhes on which they are found.

CIRTA, (anc. geog.) the metropolis and royal refidence, not far from the river Ampfaga, in the inland parts of Numidia Propria. A colony, furnamed Colonia Sittianorum, very rich, when in the hands of Syphax. The colony was led by one P. Sittius, under the aufpices of Cæfar, and was furnamed Julia. Now called Conftantina, in Algiers. E. Long. 7. 0. Lat. 35. 30..

CISALPINE, any thing on this fide the Alps. The Romans divided Gaul and the country now called Lombardy, into Cifalpine and Tranfalpine. That which was Cifalpine with regard to the Romans, is Tranfalpine with regard to us.

CISLEU, in Hebrew chronology, the ninth month of their ecclefiaftical, and third of their civil, year, anfwering nearly to our November.

CISPADANA GALLIA, (anc. geog.) a district of Italy,

Ciftercians.

Ciffa to the fouth of the Po, occupied by the Gauls in the time of the kings of Rome, feparated from Liguria on the weft, as is thought by the Iria, running from fouth to north into the Po; bounded on the fouth by the Apennine, and on the east by the Adriatic. The term is formed analogically, there being much mention in Cicero, Tacitus, Suetonius, and ancient infcriptions, made of the Tranfpadani; which and Cifpadani are terms used with refpect to Rome. Ptolemy calls the Cifpadana peculiarly Gallia Tegata, extending between the Po and Apennine, to the Sapis and Ru

bicon.

CISSA, or CISSUM (anc. geog.), a town of the Hither Spain, in Lacetania, on the cat fide of the I. berus, (thought to be Guiona.) Where the Carthaginians were firft defeated by Scipio. Another Cifa of Thrace, fituated on the river Egos Potamus, which Scylax feems to call Creffa, or Criffa; so that the reading is doubtful.

CISSAMPELOS, in botany: A genus of the monodelphia order, belonging to the diocia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 11th order, Sarmentacea. The male calyx is tetraphyllous; no corolla; the nectarium wheel-fhaped; four ftamina with their filaments grown together. The female calyx is monophyllous and ligulated roundish, or like a piece of garter a little roundish. There is no corolla; three ftyles, and a monofpermous berry. There are two fpecies, the pareira and caapeba, both natives of the warmeft parts of America. The root of the fecond, applied externally, is faid to be an antidote against the bites of venomous ferpents. The plant being infufed in water, quickly fills the liquor with a mucilaginous fubftance, which is as thick as jelly; whence the name of freezing-wyth, by which this genus of plants has been diftinguifhed by the Brazilians.

CISSOID, in geometry, a curve of the fecond or der, first invented by Diocles, whence it is called the rifoid of Diocles. See FLUXIONS.

CISSUS, the wILD GRAPE: A genus of the mo. nogynia order, belonging to the tetrandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 46th order, Hederacea. The berry is monofpermous, furrounded by the calyx, and a quadripartite corolla. There are four fpecies, all of them natives of the ifland of Jamaica, and fome of the other iflands in the warm parts of America. They fend out flen der branches, having tendrils at their joints, by which they fatten to the neighbouring trees, buthes, and any other fupport, mounting to a confiderable height. The fruit of fome of the fpecies are eaten by the

negroes.

CISTERCIANS, in church history, a religious order founded in the 11th century by St Robert, a Benedictine. They became fo powerful, that they governed almoft all Europe, both in fpirituals and tem porals. Cardinal de Vitri defcribing their obfervan. ces, fays, they neither wore fkins nor fhirts; nor ever eat flesh, except in ficknefs; and abftained from fith, eggs, milk, and cheele: they lay upon ftraw-beds, in tunics and cowls: they rofe at midnight to prayers: they spent the day in labour, reading, and prayer: and in all their exercises obferved a continual filence. The habit of the cistercian monks is a white robe,

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in the nature of a caffock, with a black fcapulary Ciftern and hood, and is girt with a wooden girdle. The # nuns wear a white tunic, and a black fcapulary and girdle.

CISTERN, denotes a fubterraneous refervoir of rain-water; or a veffel ferving as a receptacle for rain or other water, for the neceffary uses of a family. There are likewife lead-citerns, jar-cisterns, &c. Authors mention a ciftern at Conftantinople, the vaults of which are fupported by two rows of pillars, 212 in each row, each pillar being two feet in diameter. They are planted circularly, and in radii tending to that of the centre.

Anciently there were cifterns all over the country in Paleftine. There were fome likewife in cities and private houses. As the cities for the moft part were built on mountains, and the rains fell regularly in Judea at two feafons in the year only, in fpring and autumn, people were obliged to keep water in cifterns in the country for the ufe of their cattle, and in cities for the conveniency of the inhabitants. There are fill cifterna of very large dimensions to be feen in Paletline, fome whereof are 150 paces long, and 54 wide. There is one to be feen at Ramah of 32 paces in length, and 28 in breadth. Wells and cifterns, fprings and fountains, are generally confounded in fcripturelanguage.

ČISTUS, the ROCK-ROSE: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the polyandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 20th order, Rotacea. The corolla is pentapetalous; the calyx pentaphyllous, with two of its leaves fmaller than the reft. The feeds are contained in a capfule. There are 37 fpecies, molt of them natives of the fouthern parts of Europe, but hardy enough to bear the open air in this country. They are beautiful evergreen thrubs, generally very branchy quite from the bottom, and forming diffuted heads. They are very ornamental in gardens, not only as evergreens, making a fine variety at all feafons with their leaves of different figures, fizes, and fhades of green and white, but alio as firit-rate flowering fhrubs, being very profufe in moft elegant flowers of white, purple, and yellow colours. These flowers only laft for one day; but there is a continual fucceffion of new ones for a month or fix weeks on the fame plant; and when there are different fpecies, they will exhibit a constant bloom for near three months. They are propagated either by feeds or cuttings, and thrive beft in a dry foil. Their proper fituation in shrubbery works should be towards the front of the clumps and other compartments, in affemblage with the choiceft fhrubs of fimilar growth, difpofing them fo as to make a variety, and to have fhelter from the other plants; but they ought by no means to be crowded. Gum labdanun is found upon a fpecies of citus which grows naturally in the Levant, and is therefore called ladanifera. Sce LABDANUM.

CITADEL, a place fortised with five or fix baftions, built on a convenient ground near a city, that it may cormand it in cafe of a rebellion.

CITADELLA, the capital town in the island of Minorca, in the Mediterranean, with a new harbour. This, with the whole ifland, were taken by general Stanhope and the confederate fleet in 1708, and ceded

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to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713:
but it was taken by the French, after a brave defence,
in 1756; and restored by the peace. In 1782, it was
taken by the Spaniards, and confirmed to them at
the fubfequent peace. It is 27 miles weft of Port-
Mahon. E. Long. 3. 30. N. Lat. 39. 58.

CITADINESCA, in natural hiftory, a name given
by fome writers to the Florentine marble, which is
fuppofed to reprefent towns, palaces, ruins, rivers, &c.
Thefe delineations are merely accidental, and are com-
monly much affifted by the imagination, though the
natural lines of a ftone may fometimes luckily enough
reprefent the ruins of fome ancient building, or the
courfe of a river. In England there is a kind of fep-
taria, or ludus Helmontii, which has fometimes pret-
ty beautiful, though very irregular, delineations of this
kind. The Florentine marble, as we fee it wrought up
in the ornaments of cabinets, &c. owes a great deal to
the skill of the workmen, who always pick out the
proper pieces from the mafs, and difpofe them in the
work fo as to reprefent what they please.

CITATION, in ecclefiaftical courts, is the fame with fummons in civil courts. See SUMMONS.

CITATION, is also a quotation of fome law, authority, or paffage of a book.

CITHARON (anc. geog), a mountain and forest of Beotia, celebrated both in fable and fong. To the weft it ran obliquely, a little above the Sinus Criflæus, taking its rife contiguous to the mountains of Megara and Attica; then levelled into plains, it terminates at Thebes, famous for the fate of Pentheus and Acteon; the former torn by the Bacchæ, the latter by his dogs; as alfo for the orgia, or revels of Bacchus.

CITHARA, in antiquity, a mufical inftrument, the precife ftructure of which is not known; fome think it refembled the Greek delta 4; and others the shape of a half moon. At first it had only 3 ftrings, but the number was at different times increafed to 8, to 9, and lastly to 24. It was used in entertainments and private houses, and played upon with a plectrum. or quill, like the lyre.

CITHAREXYLON, FIDDLE-WOOD: A genus of the angiofpermia order, belonging to the didynamia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 40th order, Perfonate. The calyx is quinquedentated, campanulated, wheel-fhaped, and inclining to be funnel-fhaped, with its fegments villous on the upper fide, equal. The fruit a difpermous berry; the feeds bilocular. There are two fpecies, both natives of the warm parts of America, where they grow to be large trees, and are adorned with white flowers growing in fpikes. In Britain they appear only as fhrubs, and must be conftantly retained in the ftove, where they make a fine appearance, being beautiful evergreens. They may be propagated either by feeds or cuttings.

CITIUM, CETIUM, or Cittium (anc. geog.), a town of Cyprus, fituated in the fouth of the inland; famous for the birth of Zeno, author of the fect called Stoics; diftant two hundred ftadia to the weft of Salamis (Diodorus Siculus). A colony of Phoenicians, called Chutim: And hence it is that not only Cyprus, but the other iflands and many maritime places, are called Chetim by the Hebrews; now called Chiti.

CITIZEN, a native or inhabitant of a city, vefted Citizen with the freedom and liberties of it.

A citizen of Rome was distinguished from a ftranger, because he belonged to no certain commonwealth fubject to the Romans. A citizen is either by birth or election; and fons may derive the right from their fathers. To make a good Roman citizen, it was neceffary to be an inhabitant of Rome, to be inrolled in one of the tribes, and to be capable of dignities. Thofe to whom were granted the rights and privileges of Roman citizens, were only honorary citizens. It was not lawful to fcourge a citizen of Rome.

CITRINUS, in natural hiftory, the name of a peculiar fpecies of fprig cryftal, which is of a beautiful yellow. Many of the common crystals, when in the neighbourhood of lead mines, are liable to be accidentally tinged yellow, by an admixture of the particles of that metal; and all thefe, whether finer or coarfer, have been too frequently confounded together under the name citrine: but Dr Hill has afcertained this to be a peculiar fpecies of cryftal different from all the others in form as well as in colour; and distinguifhed by the name of ellipomacroftylum lucidum flavefcens, pyramide brevi. It is never found colourless like the other cryftals, but has great variety of tinges, from that of the deeper ochres to a pale lemon-colour. It is very plentiful in the West Indies, and is fometimes found in Bohemia. Our jewellers have learned from the French and Italians, who are very fond of it, to call it citrine; and often cut ftones for rings out of it, particularly out of the pyramid, which is always. finer than the column; and thefe, after they have. paffed through two or three hands, are generally mistaken for topazes.

CITRON-TREE, in botany. See CITRUS.

CITRON-Water, a well known ftrong water or cordial, which may be thus made: Take of fine thin lemon-peel, 18 ounces; of orange-peel, 9 ounces; perfect nutmegs, 4 ounces; the finest and beft rectified. fpirit of wine, 2 gallons and a half. Digeft in balnco maria for one night draw off with a flow fire; then add as much water as will just make the matter milky (which will be about 7 quarts or 2 gallons); and, laftly, add 2 pounds of fine fugar. This compofition may be improved by fresh elder flowers, hung in a cloth in the head of the ftill, fprinkled with ambergrease in powder, or its effence.

CITRON-Wood, the wood of an American tree, called by the natives candle-wood; because, being cut into fplinters, it burns like a candle. The tree is frequent in the Leeward Islands, and grows to a confiderable fize: the leaves are like thofe of the bay-tree, but of a finer green; the flower is fweet, and much. like thofe of the orange; the fruit fucceeding these is black, and of the fize of a pepper-corn. The trunk. is fo like the yellow faunders in colour, that there was. once an opinion that it was the fame tree, and much of it was imported into Europe, and fold as fuch: but they were foon found to be different; the faunders being of a fweet fcent, and but moderately heavy and refinous; but the citron-wood confiderably heavy, very oily, and of a ftrong fmell. It is of no known ufe in medicine; but is ufed in France and Germany by the turners, being a fine firm-grained wood, and

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