Twelve years after Norris's death, Mrs. Barry was acting the character of "Calista." In the last act, where "Calista" lays her hand upon a skull, she [_Mrs. Barry_] was suddenly seized with a shuddering, and fainted. Next day she asked whence the skull had been obtained, and was told it was "the skull of Mr. Norris, an actor." This Norris was her former husband, and so great was the shock that she died within six weeks.--Oxberry. CALIS'TO AND AR'CAS. Calisto, an Arcadian nymph, was changed into a she-bear. Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast, was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear. Both were taken to heaven by Jupiter, and became the constellations _Ursa Minor_ and _Ursa Major_. CALL'AGHAN O'BRALL'AGHAN (_Sir_), "a wild Irish soldier in the Prussian army. His military humor makes one fancy he was not only born in a siege, but that Bellona had been his nurse, Mars his schoolmaster, and the Furies his playfellows" (act i. 1). He is the successful suitor of Charlotte Goodchild.--C. Macklin, _Love à la mode_ (1779). CALLET, a _fille publique_. Brantôme says a _calle_ or _calotte_ is "a cap," hence the phrase, _Plattes comme des calles_. Ben Jonson, in his _Magnetick Lady_, speaks of "wearing the callet, the politic hood." Des filles du peuple et de la campagne s'appellant _çalles_, à cause de la "cale" qui leur servait de coiffure.--Francisque Michel. En sa tête avoit un gros bonnet blanc, qui l'on appelle une _calle_, et nous autres appelons _calotte_, ou bonnette blanche de lagne, nouée ou bridée par dessous le menton.--Brantôme, _Vies des Dames Illustres_. A beggar in his drink Could not have laid such terms upon his callet. Shakespeare, _Othello_, act iv. sc. 2 (1611). CALLIM'ACHUS (_The Italian_), Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437-1496). CALLIR'RHOE (4 _syl._), the lady-love of Chae'reas, in a Greek romance entitled _The Loves of Choreas and Callirrhoê_, by Char'iton (eighth century). CALLIS'THENES (4 _syl._), a philosopher who accompanied Alexander the Great on his Oriental expedition. He refused to pay Alexander divine honors, for which he was accused of treason, and being mutilated, was chained in a cage for seven months like a wild beast. Lysimachus put an end to his tortures by poison. Oh let me roll in Macedonian rays, Or, like Callisthenes, be caged for life, Rather than shine in fashions of the East. N. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, iv. I (1678). CAL'MAR, son of Matha, lord of Lara (in Connaught). He is represented as presumptuous, rash, and overbearing, but gallant and generous. The very opposite of the temperate Connal, who advises caution and forethought. Calmar hurries Cuthullin into action, which ends in defeat. Connal comforts the general in his distress.--Ossian, _Fingal_, i.