A dictionary of Greek and Roman . found. The plinth is inlaid in imitation of a vine,the leaves of which are of silver, the stem and fruitof bright bronze. On one side is an altar withwood and fire upon it; and on the other a Bacchusriding on a tiger. (Becker, Gallus, vol. ii. p. 206,&c.) CANDIDATUS. [Ambitus.] CANDYS (ndvSvs), a gown worn by the Medesand Persians over their trowsers and other gar-ments. (Xen. Cyr. i. 3. § 2, Anab. i. 5. § 8 ; xvii. 77.) It had wide sleeves, and was madeof woollen cloth, which was either purple or ofsome other splendid colour. In the Pe
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . found. The plinth is inlaid in imitation of a vine,the leaves of which are of silver, the stem and fruitof bright bronze. On one side is an altar withwood and fire upon it; and on the other a Bacchusriding on a tiger. (Becker, Gallus, vol. ii. p. 206,&c.) CANDIDATUS. [Ambitus.] CANDYS (ndvSvs), a gown worn by the Medesand Persians over their trowsers and other gar-ments. (Xen. Cyr. i. 3. § 2, Anab. i. 5. § 8 ; xvii. 77.) It had wide sleeves, and was madeof woollen cloth, which was either purple or ofsome other splendid colour. In the Persepolitansculptures, nearly all the principal personagesare clothed in it. The three here shown aretaken from Sir R. K. Porters Travels (vol. i. ). [J. Y.] CANTIIARUS. 237. CANEPHOROS (Kavn<p6pos). When a sacri-fice was to be offered, the round cake (Tpoxta,(pdots, ir6ivavov, , mola salsa), the chapletof flowers, the knife used to slay the victim, andsometimes the frankincense, were deposited in aflat circular basket (naveou, canistrum), and thiswas frequently carried by a virgin on her head tothe altar. The practice was observed more espe-cially at Athens. When a private man sacrificed,either his daughter, or some unmarried female ofhis family, officiated as his canephoros ( 241—252) ; but in the Panathenaea, theDionysia, and other public festivals, two virgins ofthe first Athenian families were appointed for thepurpose. Their function is described by Ovid(Met. ii. 713—715). That the office was accounted highhy honourableappears from the fact, that the resentment of Har-modius, which instigated him to kill Hipparchus,arose from the insult offered by the latter in for-bidding the sister of Harmodius to walk as cane-phoros in t
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