A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

CEPHALION.
CENTUMALUS, the name of a family of the
plebeian Fulvia gens.
1. CN. FULVIUS CN. F. CN. N. MAXIMUS CENTUMALUS, legate of the dictator M. Valerius Corvus in the Etruscan war, B. c. 301, and consul in
298 with L. Cornelius Scipio, when he gained a
brilliant victory over the Samnites near Bovianum,
and afterwards took this town and Aufidena. It
would also appear that he subsequently obtained
some successes in Etruria, as the Capitoline Fasti
speak of his triumph in this year as celebrated
over the Samnites and Etruscans. In 295 he
served as propraetor in the great campaign of Q.
Fabius Maximus and P. Decius Mus, and gained
a victory over the Etruscans. (Liv. x. 4, 11, 22,
26, 27, 30.)
The Fasti Capitolini mention a dictator of this
name in 263, who is either the same as the preceding, or his son.
2. CN. FULVIUS CN. F. CN. N. CENTUMALUS,
consul B. C. 229 with L. Postumius Albinus, conducted the war with his colleague in Illyria. They
met with no effectual resistance; and after the
troops of the Illyrian queen, Teuta, had been completely dispersed, and she herself had retired with
a very few followers to a strongly fortified town,
called Rhizon, Centumalus returned to Rome with
the greater part of the navy and land forces, leaving Albinus behind with forty ships. Centumalus
triumphed in the following year, the first time
that a triumph had been celebrated over the Illyrians. (Polyb. ii. 11, 12; Flor. ii. 5; Eutrop.
iii. 4; Oros. iv. 13; comp. Dion Cass. Frag. 151,
ed. Reimar.)
3. CN. FULVIUS CN. F. CN. N. CENTUMALUS,
son apparently of No. 2, was curule aedile in B. c.
214, and was elected to the praetorship while he
held the former office. As praetor in the following
year, B. c. 213, Suessula was assigned him as his
province with the command of two legions. He
was consul in 211 with P. Sulpicius Galba, and
his command was prolonged in the next year, in
which he was defeated by Hannibal near the town
of Herdonia in Apulia, and he himself with eleven
tribunes of the soldiers perished in the battle.
(Liv. xxiv. 43, 44, xxv. 41, xxvi. 1, 28, xxvii. 1;
Polyb. ix. 6; Eutrop. iii. 14; Oros. iv. 17.)
4. M. FULVIUS CENTUMALUS, praetor urbanus
B. c. 192, had to take an active part that year
in the preparations for the war against Antiochus
the Great, and was commanded, among other
things, to superintend the building of fifty new
quinqueremes. (Liv. xxxv. 10, 20, 23, 24.)
CENTUMALUS, TI. CLAUDIUS, had an
action brought against him by P. Calpurnius Lanarius on account of alleged fraud in the sale of some
property to the latter. Judgment was pronounced
against Centumalus by M. Porcius Cato, the father
of Cato Uticensis. (Cic. de Off. iii. 16; Val. Max.
viii. 2. ~ 1.) [Comp. CATO, No. 6, p. 645, a.]
CEPHA'LION (Ke(paxicov or Ke )aXaiwv), an
historian of the time of Hadrian, who wrote, besides other works, a oV'vvrojov ~orTopKcov extending
from the time of Ninus and Semiramis to that of
Alexander the Great. It was written in the Ionic
dialect, and was divided into nine books, called
by the names of the Muses; and as in this he
aped Herodotus, so he is reported to have aimed at
resembling Homer by concealing his birth-place.
Hadrian banished him to Sicily where this work
was composed. (Suidas, s. v.; Photius, Cod. 68;

CEPHALUS. 667
Euseb. Chron. i.p. 30; Syncell. p. 167; Vossius, de
Hist. Graec. p. 262, ed. Westermann.) [G. E. L. C.]
CE'PHALON (KePdAwY), called o repyOLtos or
rep-ytios from a town in the Cuman territory
named Frpyides or TepyLOes. (Strab. xiii. p. 589.)
He wrote an account of the fortunes of Aeneas
after the taking of Troy, called Troica (Tpwca'd).
His date is unknown, but he is called by Dionysius
of Halicarnassus (i. 72) ovyypaePEVs aracauis 7rovv.
Athenaeus (ix. 393, d.) calls him Cephalion, and
remarks, that the Troica which went under his
name, was in reality the work of Hegesianax of
Alexandria. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 412, ed.
Westermann.) [G. E. L. C.]
CE'PHALUS (K4saAor). 1. A son of Hermes
and Herse, was carried off by Eos, who became by
him the mother of Tithonus in Syria. (Apollod.
iii. 14. ~ 3.) Hyginus (Fab. 160, 270) makes
him a son of Hermes by Creusa, or of Pandion,
and Hesiod (Theog. 986) makes Phaeton the son
of Cephalus instead of Tithonus. On the pediment of the kingly Stoa in the Cerameicus at
Athens, and on the temple of Apollo at Amyclae,
the carrying off of Cephelus by Hemera (not Eos)
was represented. (Paus. i. 3. ~ 1, iii. 18. ~ 7.)
2. A son of Deion, the ruler of Phocis, and
Diomede, was married to Procris or Procne, by
whom he became the father of Archius, the father
of Laertes. He is described as likewise beloved
by Eos (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 4; Hygin. Fab. 125;
Schol. ad Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 209), but he and
Procris were sincerely attached, and promised to
remain faithful to each other. Once when the
handsome Cephalus was amusing himself with the
chase, Eos approached him with loving entreaties,
which, however, he rejected. The goddess then
bade him not break his vow until Procris had
broken hers, but advised him to try her fidelity.
She then metamorphosed him into a stranger, and
gave him rich presents with which he was to tempt
Procris. Procris was induced by the brilliant
presents to break the vow she had made to Cephalus, and when she recognized her husband, she
fled to Crete and discovered herself to Artemis.
The goddess made her a present of a dog and a
spear, which were never to miss their object, and
then sent her back to Cephalus. Procris returned
home in the disguise of a youth, and went out with
Cephalus to chase. When he perceived the excellence of her dog and spear, he proposed to buy
them of her; but she refused to part with them
for any price except for love. When he accordingly
promised to love her, she made herself known to
him, and he became reconciled to her. As, however, she still feared the love of Eos, she always
jealously watched him when he went out hunting,
but on one occasion he killed her by accident with
the never-erring spear. (Hygin. Fab. 189.) Somewhat different versions of the same story are given
by Apollodorus (iii. 15. ~ 1) and Ovid. (Met. vii.
394, &c.; comp. Anton. Lib. 41; Schol. ad Eurip.
Orest. 1643.) Subsequently Amphitryon of Thebes
came to Cephalus, and persuaded him to give up
his dog to hunt the fox which was ravaging the
Cadmean territory. After doing this he went out
with Amphitryon against the Teleboans, upon the
conquest of whom he was rewarded by Amphitryon
with the island which he called after his own name
Cephallenia. (Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 7; Strab. x. p.
456; Eustath. ad Hornm. p. 307, &c.) Cephalus is
also called the father of Iphiclus by Clymene.