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a figure supporting a lamp (MAus. Botb. vii. pl. 15),
or of a figure, by the side of which the shaft is
placed with two branches, each of which terminaies in a flat disc, upon which a lamp was placed. it
A candelabrum of the latter kind is given in the
preceding woodcut (Ales. Borb. iv. pl. 59). The
stem is formed of a liliaceous plant; and at the
base is a mass of bronze, on which a Silenus is
seated engaged in trying to pour wine from a skin
which he holds in his left hand, into a cup in his
right.
There was another kind of candelabrum, entirely
different from those which have been described, -_ a.
which did not stand upon the ground, but was CANE'PHOROS (tav7p'(pos). When a sacrlplaced upon the table. These candelabra usually fice was to be offered, the round cake (-poXla
consist of pillars, from the capitals of which several (peois, 7r7rayov, oAx, mold salsa), the chaplet
lamps hang down, or of trees, from whose branches of flowers, the knife used to slay the victim, and
lamps also are suspended. The following wood- sometimes the frankincense, were deposited in a
cut represents a very elegant candelabrum of this flat circular basket (Kds'eov, canistrusn), and this
kind, found in Pompeii. (A1lus. Borb. ii. pl. 13.) was frequently carried by a virgin on her head to
The original, including the stand, is three feet the altar. The practice was observed more espehigh. The pillar is not placed in the centre, but cially at Athens. When a private man sacrificed,
at one end of the plinth, which is the case in al- either his daughter, or some unmarried female of
most every candelabrum of this description yet his family, officiated as his canephoros (Aristoph.
Aclsare. 241-252); but in the Panathenaea, the
Dionysia, and other public festivals, two virgins of, AGJ'. _ the first Athenian families were appointed for the
kfi purpose. Their function is described by Ovid
(Met. ii. 713-715).
That the office was accounted highly honourable
appears from the fact, that the resentment of Harmodius, which instigated him to kill Hipparchus,
arose from the insult offered by the latter in for-i-~2~sMI lllli9 IIbidding the sister of Harmodius to walk as canephoros in the Panathenaic procession. (Thucyd.
vi. 56; Aelian, V. H. xi. 8.) An antefixa in the
British Museum (see woodcut) represents the two
canephoroa approaching a candelabrum. Each of
them elevates one arm to support the basket, while
she slightly raises her tunic with the other. This
found. The plinth is inlaid in imitation of a vine, attitude wa s much admired by ancient artists.
the leaves of which are of silver, the stem and fruit Pliny (H. NV. xxxvi. 4. s. 7) mentions a marble
of bright bronze. On one side is an altar with canephoros by Scopas, and Cicero (Verr. iv. 3)
wood and fire upon it;* and on the other a Bacchus describes a pair in bronze, which were the exquisite
riding on a tiger. (Becker, Gallus, vol. ii. p. 206, work of Polycletus. [CARYATIS.] [J. Y.]
&c.) CANISTRUM. [CANEPHOROS.]
CANDIDA/TUS. [AMBITUS.] CANTABRUM, a standard used at the tiiie
CANDYS (tcdvavs), a gown worn by the Medes of the Roman empire, and carried in festive proand Persians over their trowsers and other gar- cessions. (Tertull. Apol. 16; Minuc. Felix, 29.)
ments. (Xen. Cyr. i. 3. ~ 2, Anab. i. 5. ~ 8; Diod. CANTE'RII is used by Vitruvius (iv. 2) for
Sic. xvii. 77.) It had wide sleeves, and was made the rafters of the roof, extending from the ridge to
of woollen cloth, which was either purple or of the eaves. [P. S.]
some other splendid colour. In the Persepolitan CA'NTHARUS (Kcas'apos) was a kind of
sculptures, nearly all the principal personages drinking-cup, furnished with handles (cantloarus
are clothed in it. The three here shown are eanse, Vir. Eel. vi. 17; Hor. Crsin. i. 20). It is
taken from Sir R. K. Porter's Travels (vol. i. pl. said by some writers to have derived its name
P4). [J. Y.] from one Ca ntilrus, who fuext mable culps of this