. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . torch, as in fig. 4; sometimes with one or two torches, as infig. 5, in the act of seeking Proserpine, to which is addedthe plough, or some other implement of husbandry, or apig, &-c. as the goddess of tillage; and sometimes in a chariotdrawn by two dragons, as they are supposed to be repre-. sented in fig. 6; sometimes by two lions, or four horses, & Sicil
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . torch, as in fig. 4; sometimes with one or two torches, as infig. 5, in the act of seeking Proserpine, to which is addedthe plough, or some other implement of husbandry, or apig, &-c. as the goddess of tillage; and sometimes in a chariotdrawn by two dragons, as they are supposed to be repre-. sented in fig. 6; sometimes by two lions, or four horses, & Sicil ; Vaill. Grwc. ; Hav. Parut. CERIALIS, Anicius (Hist.) vide Anicius. CERIGO (Geog.) one of the seven islands in the Mediter-ranean, which compose the Ionian republic, well known tothe ancients by the name of Cythera. It is situated at theentrance of the Archipelago, in the Gulf of Maratonisi, orKolokylhia, and to the south of the Morea, from which it is3 H 2 CES separated by a narrow strait. It formerly belonged to the IVenetians, from whom it was taken by the French in 1797,but retaken two years after, and incorporated in the IonianRepublic. Cerigo (Geog.) or Kupsidi, the capital of the island Cerigo,and the ancient Cythera, is at present an insignificant place,having a good harbour called Porto Delphino. Lon. 22°36 E., lat. 36° 10 N. CARILLI (Geog.) or Cerellcv, now Cerella, a town of theBrutii, near the river Laus. CERINTHUS (Ecc.) a disciple of Simon Magus, and a hereticof the first century, who impugn
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