_The Cid's Horse_ was Babieca [either _Bab.i.e'.keh_ or _Ba.bee.'keh]._ It survived its master two years and a half, but no one was allowed to mount it. Babieca was buried before the monastery gates of Valencia, and two elms were planted to mark the spot. Troth it goodly was and pleasant To behold him at their head, All in mail on Babieca, And to list the words he said. _The Cid_. (Here "Babieca" is 4 _syl_., but in the verse above it is only 3 _syl_.). _The Cid's Swords_, Cola'da and Tizo'na ("terror of the world"). The latter was taken by him from King Bucar. _Cid (The Portuguese_), Nunez Alva'rez Perei'ra (1360-1431). CID HAMET BENENGELI, the hypothetical author of _Don Quixote_. (See BENENGELI). Spanish commentators have discovered this pseudonym to be only an Arabian version of _Signior Cervantes. Cid, i.e._, "signior;" _Hamet_, a Moorish prefix; and _Ben-en-geli_, meaning "son of a stag." So _cervato_ ("a young stag") is the basis of the name Cervantes. CIDLI, the daughter of Jairus, restored to life by Jesus. She was beloved by Sem'ida, the young man of Nain, also raised by Jesus from the dead.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iv. (1771). CIGARETTE. _Vivandiére_ in the French army in Algiers. Passionate, wilful, tender and brave, she gives her life to save that of the man she loves.--Ouida, _Under Two Flags_. CIMMERIAN DARKNESS. Homer places the Cimmerians beyond the Oceanus, in a land of never-ending gloom; and immediately after Cimmeria, he places the empire of Hadês. Pliny (_Historia Naturalis_, vi. 14) places Cimmeria near the Lake Avernus, in Italy, where "the sun never penetrates." Cimmeria is now called _Kertch_, but the Cossacks call it _Prekla (Hell)._ CINCINNATUS, virtuous Roman patriot called from the plough to serve the State. CINCINNA'TUS OF THE AMERICANS, George Washington (1732-1799). CINDERELLA, the heroine of a fairy tale. She was the drudge of the house, "put upon" by her two elder sisters. While the elder sisters were at a ball, a fairy came, and having arrayed the "little cinder-girl" in ball costume, sent her in a magnificent coach to the palace where the ball was given. The prince fell in love with her, but knew not who she was. This, however, he discovered by means of a "glass slipper" which she dropped, and which fitted no foot but her own. (This tale is substantially the same as that of _Rhodopis and Psammitichus_ in Ælian _[Var. Hist_., xiii., 32]. A similar one is also told in Strabo _(Geog._ xvii).) The _glass_ slipper should be the _fur_ slipper, _pantoufle en vair_, not _en verre_; our version being taken from the _Contes de Fees_ of C. Perrault (1697). CINDY, maid-of-all-work in the Derrick household, in Susan Warner's _Say and Seal._ With the freedom of Yankee help she is "'boun' to confess" whatever occurs to her mind in season and out of season. (1860).