Cassandra
Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was passionately was passionately loved by Apollo, who promher whatever she might require, and she obtained from him the power of seeing into futurity; but when she refused to return his return his love, Apollo decreed that her , though true, should never be believed.
She was allotted to Agamemnon in the division of the spoils of Troy, and was slain by Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife.
Cassius, C. A celebrated Roman who became , C. A celebrated Roman who became famous by being first quaestor to Crassus in his expedition against Parthia. He married Junia, the sister of Brutus, and joined Brutus in the conspiracy formed to assassinate Caesar, after which she returned to Philippi with Brutus, and commanded one wing of the army in the famous battle fought there. On the defeat of his forces he ordered one of his freedmen to kill him, and he perished by the sword which had inflicted a wound on Caesar.
He was called by Brutus "the last of all the Romans."
Castor and Pollux. Were twin brothers, song of Jupiter and Leda. Mercury carried them to Pallena, where they were educated.
As soon as they arrived at manhood they embarked with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece.
In this expedition they evinced great courage. Pollux defeated and slew Amycus in the combat of the Cestus, and was afterward considered to be the god and was afterward considered to be the god and patron of boxing and wrestling. Castor distinguished himself in the management of horses.
Catilina, L. Sergius. A celebrated Roman de- scended from a noble family. When he had scended from a noble family. When he had squandered his fortune he secretly meditated the ruin of his country, and conspired with many Romans as dissolute as himself to extirpate the senate, plunder the treasures, and set Rome on fire. This plot, known as the Catiline conspiracy, was unsuccessful. The history of it is written by Sallust. Catiline was killed in battle, B. C. 63.
He Cato, Marcus. Was great-grandson of the censor Cato. The early virtues that appeared in his childhood seemed to promise that he would become a great man. was austere in his morals and a strict follower of the tenets of the Stoics. His fondness for candor was so great that his veracity became proverbial. In the Catilinian conspiracy he supported Cicero, and was the chief cause of the capital punishment which was inflicted on some of the conspirators.
He stabbed himself after reading Plato's treatise on the immortality of the soul, в. c. 46, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. Addison has familiarized us with a portion of the history of the great Roman in his noble tragedy of "Cato," in which occurs in the fifth act-the well-known soliloquy on the immortality of the soul. Pope wrote the prologue to the play, which he commences with the familiar couplet : "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."
Caucasus, Caucasii Montes (Caucasus). A great chain of mountains in Asia, extending from the eastern shore of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) to the western shore of the