CAL'THON, brother of Col'mar, sons of Rathmor chief of Clutha (_the Clyde_). The father was murdered in his halls by Dunthalmo lord of Teutha (_the Tweed_), and the two boys were brought up by the murderer in his own house, and accompanied him in his wars. As they grew in years Dunthalmo fancied he perceived in their looks a something which excited his suspicions, so he shut them up in two separate dark caves on the banks of the Tweed. Colmal, daughter of Dunthalmo, dressed as a young warrior, liberated Calthon, and fled with him to Morven, to crave aid in behalf of the captive Colmar. Accordingly, Fingal sent his son Ossian with 300 men to effect his liberation. When Dunthalmo heard of the approach of this army, he put Colmar to death. Calthon, mourning for his brother, was captured, and bound to an oak; but at daybreak Ossian slew Dunthalmo, cut the thongs of Calthon, gave him to Colmal, and they lived happily in the halls of Teutha.--Ossian, _Calthon and Colmal_. CAL´YDON (_Prince of_), Melea´ger, famed for killing the Calydonian boar.--_Apollod._ i. 8. (See MELEAGER.) As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd, Unto the prince's heart of Calydon. Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 1 (1591). _Cal´ydon_, a town of Aeto´lia, founded by Calydon. In Arthurian romance Calydon is a forest in the north of our island. Probably it is what Richard of Cirencester calls the "Caledonian Wood," westward of the Varar or Murray Frith. CALYDO´NIAN HUNT. Artemis, to punish Oeneus [_E´.nuce_] king of Cal´ydon, in Aeto´lia, for neglect, sent a monster boar to ravage his vineyards. His son Melea´ger collected together a large company to hunt it. The boar being killed, a dispute arose respecting the head, and this led to a war between the Curetês and Calydo´nians. A similar tale is told of Theseus (_2 syl._), who vanquished and killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near Corinth. (See KROMMYONIAN SOW.) CALYP´SO, in _Télémaque_, a prose-epic by Fénélon, is meant for Mde. de Montespan. In mythology she was queen of the island Ogyg´ia, on which Ulyssês was wrecked, and where he was detained for seven years. She essayed after his departure to bring his son Telemachus under her spell. The lad, seeking the world through for his father, was preserved from the arts of the temptress by Mentor--Minerva in disguise. CALYPSO'S ISLE, Ogygia, a mythical island "in the navel of the sea." Some consider it to be Gozo, near Malta. Ogygia (_not the island_) is Boeo´tia, in Greece.