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748 CILNII.
the Volsci, and on this account entered the city
with the honour of an ovation. (Liv. iii. 8, 10;
Dionys. ix. 69; Diod. xi. 81.)
4. C. VETURIUS P. F. GEMINUS CICURINUS,
consul B.c. 455 with T. Romilius Rocus Vaticanus,
marched with his colleague against the Aequi.
They defeated the enemy, and gained immense
booty, which however they did not distribute
among the soldiers, but sold on account of the
poverty of the treasury. They were in consequence
both brought to trial in the next year: Veturius
was accused by L. Alienus, the plebeian aedile,
and sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 asses. As
some compensation for his ill-treatment by the
plebeians he was elected augur in 453. (Liv. iii.
31, 32; Dionys. x. 33; Diod. xii. 5.)
5. SP. VETURIUS SP. F. P. N. CRASSUS CICURINUS, one of the first decemvirate, B. c. 451 (Fast.
Capitol.), called L. Veturius by Livy (iii. 33) and
T. Veturius by Dionysius (x. 56).
6. SP. VETURIUS CRASSUS CICURINUS, consular
tribune in B. c. 417. Livy (iii. 47) calls him Sp.
Rutilius Crassus; but this no doubt is a false reading, for Diodorus (xiii. 7) has Sp. Veturius, and
the Rutilia gens was moreover plebeian, and had
not the cognomen of Crassus.
7. M.VETURIUS Ti. F. SP. N. CRASSUS CICURINUS,
consular tribune B. c. 399,-the only patrician
elected this year; his five colleagues were all plebeians. (Liv. v. 13; Diod. xiv. 54.)
8. C. VETURIUS CRASSUS CICURINUS, consular
tribune B. c. 377, and a second time in 369 during
the agitation of the Licinian laws. (Liv. vi. 32, 36;
Diod. xv. 61, 77.)
9. L.VETURIUS L. F. SP.N. CRASSUS CICURINUS,
consular tribune two years successively, B. c. 368,
367, in the latter of which years the Licinian laws
were carried. (Liv. vi. 38, 42.)
CIDA'RIA (Ksoapia), a surname of the Elcusinian Demeter at Pheneus, in Arcadia, derived
either from an Arcadian dance called Ki8apts, or
from a royal head-dress of the same name. (Paus.
viii. 15. ~ 1.) [L. S.]
CILIX (KiAtL), a son of Agenor and Telephassa.
He and his brothers Cadmus and Phoenix were
sent out by their father in search of Europa, who
had been carried off by Zeus. Cilix settled in the
country which derived from him the name of Cilicia. He is called the father of Thasus and Thebe.
(Herod. vii. 91; Apollod. iii. 1. ~ 1; Hygin. Fab.
178; Diod. v. 49.) [L. S.]
CILLA (KiAxa), a daughter of Laomedon and
Placia or Leucippe, and a sister of Priam. At the
time when Hecabe was pregnant with Paris, the
seer Aesacus declared that mother and child must
be put to death in order to avert a great calamity;
but Priam, who referred this prophetic declaration
to Cilla and her son Menippus by Thymoetus,
made them suffer instead of Hecabe and Paris.
(Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 8; Tzetz. ad Lycoplh. 224.) [L.S.]
CILLAS or CILLUS (KiAeas or KiAAos), the
charioteer of Pelops, whose real name, according to
a Troezenian tradition, was Sphaerus. His tomb
was shewn near the town of Cilla in the neighbourhood of the temple of Apollo. (Paus. v. 10.
~ 2; Strab. xiii. p. 613.) [L. S.]
CI'LNII, a powerful family in the Etruscan
town of Arretium, who seem to have been usually
firm supporters of the Roman interests. They were
driven out of their native town in B. c. 301, by
the party opposed to them, but were restored by

CILO.
the Romans. The Cilnii were nobles or Lucnmones in their state, and some of them in ancient
times may have held even the kingly dignity.
(Comp. Hor. Carm. i. 1. 1, iii. 29. 1, Serm. i. 6.
3.) Till the fall of the republic no separate individual of this family is mentioned, for the " Cilnius" of Silius Italicus (vii. 29) is a poetical
creation, and the name has been rendered chiefly
memorable by C. Cilnius Maecenas, the intimate
friend of Augustus. [MAECENAS.] It appears
from sepulchral inscriptions that the Etruscan form
of the name was COfenle or Cf/elne, which was
changed by the Romans into Cilnius, much in the
same way as the Etruscan Leone was altered into
Licinius. (Muller, Etrusker, i. p. 414.)
CILO or CHILO, a Roman surname, seems to
have been written in either way, as we find both
forms on coins of the Flaminia gens. (Eckhel, v.
p. 212.) The Latin grammarians, however, state
that Cilo was applied to a person with a long and
narrow head, and Ch(ilo to one with large or thick
lips. (Velius Long. p. 2234, Flav. Caper, p. 2242,
Charis. p. 78, ed. Putschius; Festus, s. v. Chilo.)
CILO, a Roman senator, called by Appian
KiL\wV, proscribed in B. c. 43 (Appian, B. C. iv.
27), may perhaps be the same as the Cilo, the
friend of Toranius and Cicero, whom the latter
mentions in B. c. 45. (Cic. ad Fam. vi. 20.)
CILO, or CHILO, L. FLAMI'NIUS, occurs
only on coins, of which a specimen is annexed.
The obverse represents the head of Venus, and
the reverse Victory driving a biga. The interpretation of the inscription on the obverse, IIII. VIR.
PRI. FL., is not certain. We know that Julius
Caesar increased the number of the superintendents
of the mint from three to four, and it has therefore
been supposed that this Flaminius Chilo was one
of the first four superintendents appointed by Caesar, and that the above letters refer to this, being
equivalent to III Vir primusflandae monetae. (Eckhel, v. pp. 212, 213.)
CILO, JU'NIUS, procurator of Pontus in the
reign of Claudius, brought the Bosporan Mithridates to Rome in A. D. 50, and received afterwards the consular insignia. (Tac. Ann. xii. 21.)
Dion Cassius speaks (lx. 33) of him as governor of
Bithynia, and relates an amusing tale respecting
him. The Bithynians came before Claudius to
complain of Cilo having taken bribes, but as the
emperor could not hear them on account of the
noise, he asked those standing by his side what
they said. Narcissus thereupon told him that they
were returning thanks to Cilo, upon which Claudius appointed him to the government of the province for ti o years longer.
CILO, or CHILO, P. MA'GIUS, murdered at
Peiraeeus, in a. c. 45, M. Claudius Marcellus, who
had been consul in 51, and killed himself immediately afterwards. Cilo was a friend and client of
Marcellus and a rumour was circulated at the time
by Caesar's enemies, that the dictator had instigated
him to commit the murder. Brutus wrote to Cicero