CÆ'CIAS, the north-west wind. Argestês is the north-east, and Bo'reas the full north. Boreas and Cæcias and Argestes loud ...rend the woods, and seas upturn. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, x. 699, etc. (1665). CÆLESTI'NA, the bride of sir Walter Terill. The king commanded sir Walter to bring his bride to court on the night of her marriage. Her father, to save her honor, gave her a mixture supposed to be poison, but in reality it was only a sleeping draught. In due time the bride recovered, to the amusement of the king and delight of her husband.--Th. Dekker, _Satiromastix_ (1602). CÆ'NEUS [_Se.nuce_] was born of the female sex, and was originally called Cænis. Vain of her beauty, she rejected all lovers, but was one day surprised by Neptune, who offered her violence, changed her sex, converted her name to Ceneus, and gave her (or rather _him_) the gift of being invulnerable. In the wars of the Lap'ithæ, Ceneus offended Jupiter, and was overwhelmed under a pile of wood, but came forth converted into a yellow bird. Æneas found Ceneus in the infernal regions restored to the feminine sex. The order is inverted by sir John Davies: And how was Caeneus made at first a man, And then a woman, then a man again. _Orchestra, etc_. (1615). CÆSAR (_Caius Julius_). Somewhere I've read, but where I forget, he could dictate Seven letters at once, at the same time writing his memoirs.... Better be first, he said, in a little Iberian village Than be second in Rome; and I think he was right when he said it. Twice was he married before he was twenty, and many times after; Battles five hundred he fought, and a thousand cities he conquered; But was finally stabbed by his friend the orator Brutus. Longfellow, _Courtship of Miles Standish_, ii. Longfellow refers to Pliny, vii. 25, where he says that Cæsar "could employ, at one and the same time, his ears to listen, his eyes to read, his hand to write, and his tongue to dictate." He is said to have conquered three hundred nations; to have taken eight hundred cities, to have slain in battle a million men, and to have defeated three millions. (See below, CÆSAR'S WARS.) _Cæsar and his Fortune_. Plutarch says that Cæsar told the captain of the vessel in which he sailed that no harm could come to his ship, for that he had "Cæsar and his fortune with him." Now am I like that proud insulting ship, Which Cæsar and his fortune bare at once. Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589). _Cæsar saves his Commentaries_. Once, when Julius Cæsar was in danger of being upset into the sea by the overloading of a boat, he swam to the nearest ship, with his book of _Commentaries_ in his hand.--Suetonius. _Cæsar's Death_. Both Chaucer and Shakespeare say that Julius Cæsar was killed in the capitol. Thus Polonius says to Hamlet, "I did enact Julius Cæsar; I was killed i' the capitol" (_Hamlet_, act iii. sc. 2). And Chaucer says: