ODYSSEUS, ef-dys'-seus (see ULYSSES). MAGER, a "-li-ger, king of Thrace, was father of Orpheus and Linus. CErkg'rliis is used for Thracian.
CEnaLus, ee-bli-lus, king of Sparta and father of Tyndareus. (E'balis,CEbill'ius, or des, is equivalent to Spartan, and is applied also to the Spartan colony Tarentum, and to the Sabines, who were said to be of Spartan blood. 2. A son of Telon and the nymph Sebethis, reigned near Neapolis, in Campania.
CEcuamit, cr-cheir-l-a, the residence of Euiltus, whom Hercilles slew. Three towns claimed to be the original, in Eubma, in Messenia, and on the Peneus in Thessaly. CEDirus (-i or -6dis), er'-di-fins (swollen footed), the son of King Lairs of Thebes and Creon's sister Jocasta, was exposed at birth on Mount Cithron, his feet being pierced and bound together (whence his name, from their swelling), Laius having been informed by an oracle that his son would kill him. The child was found by a shepherd, and carried to his master, King PolOus, of Corinth, who reared him as his own. When grown up, CEdipus went to consult the Delphic oracle (having been taunted by some of his companions with illegitimacy), and was told never to return home, or he would kill his father. Supposing the reference to be to Porybus, lie resolved never to visit Corinth ; he set out to Phocis, and at a narrow part of the way met Lalus journeying in a chariot to Delphi ; as each declined to make way for the other, a scuffle ensued, and Laius was killed. CEdipus was soon after attracted to Thebes by the procla mation of Creon, Laius's successor, offering the throne and Jocasta to whoever could solve .the riddle of the terrible Sphinx (q. v.). CEdipus solved the riddle, and became king and hus band of his mother Jocasta, by whom he had Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene, and Antigone.
Thebes was afterwards visited with a plague, and the oracle declared it would cease only when Laius's murderer was banished: the dis covery that CEdipus was the murderer was made by means of the shepherd, and con firmed by the seer Tiresias ; Jocasta hanged herself, and CEdipus put out his eyes and exiled himself. Antigone accompanied him to the grove of the Furies at Colons, near Athens, where amid thunder-peals he was removed from earth. The wars of the Seven against Thebes (see ETEOCLES) and the fizgani (q. v.) arose from the deadly quarrels of his sons.
CENEus, d-neus, king of Callon, in d'Etolia, was father, by Thestius's daughter Althma, of Clymenus, Meleager, Gorge, Deianira, Sc., and of Tydeus by Peribcea. After the hunt of the famous boar (see CALY DON), fEneus was expelled by the sons of his brother Agrius, but he was restored by his grandson Diomedes ; he gave the throne to his son-in-law Andrmmon, and went with Dio medes to Argolis, where he was killed by two of the sons of Agrius.
CEN0mAus, HIPPODAMIA, I). CENONE, ce-nil-ni, a nymph of Mount Ida, in Mysia, was daughter of the Cebren, and married by Paris ; he deserted her for Helen, but, when he received his fatal wound at Troy, he was carried to CEnone to be cured by her ; she refused to heal him, but was so disconsolate at his death that she killed herself.
(ENoPurza, re-nbfih'-yt-a, a town of Bceotia, on the Ascipus, where the Athenians defeated the Breotians 456 B.C.