Ciacco, thy dire affliction grieves me much. _Hell_, vi. CICERO. When the great Roman orator was given up by Augustus to the revenge of Antony, it was a cobbler who conducted the sicarii to Formiae, whither Cicero had fled in a litter, intending to put to sea. His bearers would have fought, but Cicero forbade them, and one Herennius has the unenviable notoriety of being his murderer. It was a cobbler that set the murderers on Cicero.--Ouida, _Ariadnê_, i. 6. _Cicero of the British Senate_, George Canning (1770-1827). _Cicero of France_, Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742). _Cicero of Germany_, John, Elector of Brandenburg (1455, 1486-1499). _Cicero's Mouth_, Philippe Pot, Prime Minister of Louis XL (1428-1494). _The British Cicero_, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). _The Christian Cicero_, Lucius Coelius Lactantius (died 330). _The German Cicero_, Johann Sturm, printer and scholar (1507-1589). CICELY (_Sweet_). Heroine of novel by Marietta Holley, better known as "Josiah Allen's wife." (1885). _Cicely Humphreys_. Putative daughter of Bothwell and Marie Stuart; who is made the companion of her mother's journeyings and captivity.--C.M. Yonge, _Unknown to History_ (1885). CYCLINIUS, mistake in one only manuscript of Chaucer for Cyllenius, a name of Mercury, from his birth-place, Mt. Cyllene in Arcadia. Cyclinius (Cyllenius) riding in his chevauchie. Chaucer, _Complaint of Mars and Venus_. CID (_The_) = Seid or Signior, also called CAMPEADOR [_Cam.pa'.dor_] or "Camp hero." Rodrigue Diaz de Bivar was surnamed "the Cid." The great hero of Castille, he was born at Burgos, 1030, and died, 1099. He signalized himself by his exploits in the reigns of Ferdinand, Sancho II., and Alphonso VI. of Leon and Castille. In the wars between Sancho II. and his brother (Alphonso VI.), he sided with the former; and, on the assassination of Sancho, was disgraced, and quitted the court. He then assembled his vassals and marched against the Moors, whom he conquered in several battles, so that Alphonso was necessitated to recall him. Both Corneille and Guilhem de Cantro have admirable tragedies on the subject; Ross Neil has an English drama called _The Cid_; Sanchez, in 1775, wrote a long poem of 1128 verses, called _Poema del Cid Campeador_. Southey, in his _Chronicle of the Cid_ (1808), has collected all that is known of this extraordinary hero. (It was _The Cid_ (1636) which gained for Corneille the title of "Le Grand Corneille.") _The Cid's Father_, Don Diego Lainez. _The Cid's Mother_, Doña Teresa Nnñez. _The Cid's Wife_, Xime'na, daughter of the Count Lozano de Gormaz. The French called her _La Belle Chimène_, but the _rôle_ ascribed to her by Corneille is wholly imaginary. Never more to thine own castle Wilt thou turn Babieca's rein; Never will thy loved Ximena See thee at her side again. _The Cid_. _The Cid's Children_. His two daughters were Elvi'ra and Sol; his son, Diego Rodriquez, died young.