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

900 CUBA.
CTESIDE'MUS, a painter celebrated for two
pictures, representing the conquest of Oechalia and
the story of Laodamia. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 40.
~ 33.) He was the master of Antiphilus (Plin.
xxxv. 37), a contemporary of Apelles. [L. U.]
CTESILAUS. [CRESILAUS.]
CTESI'LOCHUS, a painter, the pupil and perhaps brother of Apelles, known by a ludicrous
picture representing the birth of Bacchus. (Plin.
xxxv. 40. ~ 33; Suid. s. v. 'ArsEAXjs.) [L. U.]
CTE'SIPHON (K'Toa-lv). 1. A son of
Leosthenes of Anaphlystus, was accused by Aeschines for having proposed the decree, that Demosthenes should be honoured with the crown.
[AESCHINES; DEMOSTHENES.]
2. An Athenian, who was sent in B. c. 348 as
ambassador to king Philip of Macedonia, with the
view of recovering the ransom which Phrynon of
Rhamnus had been obliged to pay during the
truce of the Olympian games to pirates who were
in the pay of Philip. On his return from Macedonia, Ctesiphon confirmed the report which had
been brought to Athens by Euboean ambassadors,
that Philip was inclined to make peace with the
Athenians. After this, Ctesiphon was one of the
ten ambassadors who treated with Philip about
peace. (Dem. de Fals. Leg. pp. 344, 371; Argum.
ad Dem. de Fals. Leg. p. 336; Aeschin. de Fals.
Leg. cc. 4, 12, 14; Harpocrat. s. v. KrIfa?'ispV.)
3. The author of a work on Boeotia, of which
Plutarch (Parall. Min. 12) quotes the third book.
Whether he is the same as the Ctesiphon who
wrote on plants and trees (Plut. de Fluv. 14, 18)
is uncertain.
4. An Athenian poet, who wrote a peculiar
"kind of martial songs called KOiAa@poi, and seems to
have lived at the court of the Attali at Pergamus.
(Athen. xv. p. 697.) [L. S.]
CTESIPHON, artist. [CHERSIPHRON.]
CTESIPPUS (K-TL7r7rnos). 1. The name of
two sons of Heracles, the one by Deianeira, and the
other by Astydameia. (Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 8; Paus.
ii. 19. ~ 1, iii. 16. ~ 5.)
2. A son of Polytherses of Same, one of the
suitors of Penelope, was killed by Philoetius, the
cow-herd. (Hom. Od. xx. 288, &c., xxii. 285,
&c.) [L. S.]
CTESIPPUS (KTry'a-nros). 1. [CHABRIAS,
p. 676, b.]
2. The author of a history of Scythia, of which
the second book is quoted by Plutarch. (De Flue.
5.) [L. S.]
CTE'SIUS (KrTo'Los), the protector of property,
occurs as a surname of Zeus at Phlyus, and of
Hermes. (Athen. xi. p. 473; Paus. i. 31. ~ 2.)
Ctesius occurs also as a proper name. (Hom. Od.
xv. 413.) [L. S.]
CTESYLLA (Kr-r'viAAa), a beautiful maiden
of the island of Cos, of whom and Hermochares
Antoninus Liberalis (Met. 1) relates nearly the
same story which other writers relate of Cydippe
and Acontius. [ACONTIUS.] Buttmann (Mythol.
ii. p. 135, &c.) thinks that Ctesylla was originally
an attribute of some ancient national divinity at
Ceos-Aphrodite Ctesylla was worshipped therewho was believed to have had some love affair
with a mortal. [L. S.]
CUBA, CUNI'NA, and RUMI'NA, three
Roman genii, who were worshipped as the protectors of infants sleeping in their cradles, and to
whom libations of milk were offered. Cunae signi

CULLEOLUS.
fies a cradle, and ruma or rumis was in ancient
Latin the same as mamma, a mother's breast.
(August. de Civit. Dei, iv. 10, &c.; Lactant. i. 20,
36; Varro, ap. Non. p. 167, ap. Donat. ad Terent.
Phorm. i. 1. 14.) [L. S.]
CUBI'DIUS. [COBIDAS.]
CU'LLEO or CU'LEO, the name of a plebeian
family of the Terentia gens.
1. Q. TERENTIUS CULLEO, belonged to a family
of praetorian rank, and was a senator of considerable distinction. (Val. Max. v. 2. ~ 5.) He was
taken prisoner in the course of the second Punic
war, but at what time is uncertain, and obtained
his liberty at the conclusion of the war in B.c. 201.
To shew his gratitude to P. Scipio, he followed
his triumphal car, wearing the pileus or cap of
liberty, like an emancipated slave; and subsequently, on the death of Scipio, he attended his
funeral, walking before the bier with the cap of
liberty again on his head, and he likewise distributed mulsum, or sweet wine, among the attendants of the funeral.
In B. C. 195, Culleo was one of the three ambassadors who were sent to Carthage to complain that
Hannibal was forming the design of making war
upon the Romans in conjunction with Antiochus.
In B. c. 1 87 Culleo was praetor peregrinus, and he
was appointed by the senate in this year as the
commissioner to conduct the inquiry respecting the
money of Antiochus, which was said to have been
misappropriated by L. Scipio Asiaticus and his legates. This appointment was made under a plebiscitum which had been carried chiefly through the
influence of Cato the censor, and which referred to
the senate to nominate a commissioner to inquire
into the matter. The respect which Culleo had paid
to P. Scipio was well known, and the friends of
the Scipios probably supported his appointment for
that reason; though it is stated, on the other hand,
that his nomination to the office was brought about
by the enemies of Scipio, because lie was in reality
an enemy to the family, and had been guilty of
hypocrisy in the honours he had paid to his deliverer from captivity. But however this may be,
L. Scipio and others were condemned by him;
from which we may conclude, either that he was
in reality in league with the party opposed to the
Scipios, or that their guilt was so clear that he
dared not acquit even his friends.
In B. C. 184, Culleo was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship, and in 181 was one of the
three ambassadors sent to Masinissa and Carthage
to ask for assistance in the war against Perseus.
(Liv. xxx. 43, 45, xxxiii. 47, xxxviii. 42, 55,
xxxix. 32, xlii. 35; Val. Max. v. 2. ~ 5; Plut.
Apophth. p. 196.)
2. Q. TERENTIUS CULLEO, was tribune of the
plebs, B. c. 58, the year in which Cicero was banished. He was a friend of Cicero's, and did all
in his power to prevent his banishment and afterwards to obtain his recall. He is mentioned by
Cicero two years afterwards as one of the minor
pontiffs. In the war which followed the death of
Caesar we find Culleo in B. c. 43 passing over from
the army of Antony to join Lentulus. Culleo was
placed by Lepidus to guard the passage of the
Alps; but he allowed Antony to cross them without offering any resistance. (Cic. ad Att. iii. 15,
de Harusp. Resp. 6, ad Fam. x. 34, comp. ad Qu.
Fr. ii. 2, ad Att. viii. 12; Appian, B. C. iii. 83.)
L. CULLE'OLUS, proconsul, perhaps of Illy