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SBO CELAEKUS TUMULUS. ■nd tlmae of i ilnun not l«> thin the MiHiidn-: it ii nuned Citairhutn. and, [iung in the Agon i^ CeluDu, Sowi into tfae HueukleT. Xeaophoo, ia diecrilnni; the numb of Cpiu(AniA. i. 2. § 7), a.jt (hit Cjnu had ■ pdue at Celunu, nod ■ Ui^ pirk, fall of wild ininub ; the Uneuidu Sawri thnmgb the [ark, lad mko througb On dtj, iti . Mom being; in the palue. Then wu lito ■ palue of the PenBui ]dag it CeUaiuie, a Btmng plmoe, st i1h sonra cf the Uwiju, nnder Uh acropolii; sod tbe MuiTU Um flowi thnvgh the dlj, uid jana the Muander. Tbe sourcei of the Mirgyu sere in ■ ca>e, and the wtdlh of the river i>« 25 feet; wirbin CelAenae perbjpe he meuu. The Caturbac- te» of HendMns ia cleu-ly the Muiju of Xeoopbon, and the atreun which Hunillm d«crib«a, who iddi, " it appeared at if it had furmerlr riaeo in the centn of a urai cavern, and that the anrrouoding nxlu bad fallen in fiom the cliffii above." The descrip- tioiu of Herodotm and Xenopbon, though not the aame, are perhapa not incMosialent. The town, pa- lacea, acropolia, and jvka of Celaenae muit have occnjsed a larf^ anrhce. Is Livy'a deecHption (niriiL 13), Uie Uacaader riaea in the acropolig of Celaenae, aud mm tbraogh the middle of the dtj; and the Han}«a, which luei not far from the lonrcea of the Maeander, joina the Maemder. When the people of CelaAnae wen removed to rhe nR^hbonnng eite of Apameia Cihotna, tbej probably took the ma- teriala of the old town witb them. Strabo'a dt«rip- tion of the position of Apomcia ia not free from difficult]'. Ledke Ihinke that it dnrlj ippean from Strabo that both the ricers (Mareyu and Maeander) n thrsogh Celaenae, and ilmt Ihej imited in the tbe tOL Piaa attenipCed to tak a fort (Strmb. p. 670); and Artenridorai, with otbcr ge-^graf^en, conaideied tiue placa, and not Cora- ChdmdnA has " a mug but vei7 email port, from whence the cmuiera from CooitanCinafh lo Cjpnu embark.' (Btaufort, Karajoaiua, p. a09.) Tha Tnr^ call it (Maar. None <£ the rsnaina of Ce- lenderia appear to be dMct than the tailj period of the Boman eoipin. The town ** gaTe nanw In a ngica cdled Celaideritis (Plin. t. 3T), and coiDcd thoae lilier tetradnchma, *hich snpplj acme of the earliest and flnst apecinrana at the numiamalic ait.* (Leak^^(>alfB>Dr, &c p.116.) Then art alao txaa ft the Sjrian kinga, and of the later BcmaB e m ptroTi, witb the epgr^ih KtAxrifftrmr, [G. L.] in that Cela ar Apameia, ina aite of which is well fixed. [Afahkia, No. A.] It was an tmluck; gaesi of Strabo (p. fi79), and it bad pieM of eljnwlog', to aaggest that Celaenae might take its name from the dark colour of the rocks, in coDBeqoeiKe of thdr being honit. Bnt Hamiltoo obeervtd Ibat all the rocka are, " without eaception, of a grejiah white or cTeam-cdanred linw- atone^" The rock which overhangs the aonrces of the Maisfas contains manj nnmmnlitea, and broken fra^ents of other bivalve sheila. [G. L.] CELAENUS TUMULUS {KtKaaii AAf»t)i • moantain in Cnlilia, inentiaiied bj Ptolemy (v. 4), Booth of Pesainus, probablj. [G. L.] CE'LEAE. [pHLiua.] CELI£IA or CALEIA (KA(ia), an important dtj in the eoulh-taalem comer of Nancnm (1^. ii. U. g3i Plin. iii. !7). Ia tome inscripliona it is oiled a Roman colony bj the name of Caleia Claudia (Ordli, Imeripl. n. 501). and in olheii a muni. dinnm(Orelli. (.tn. 3020). " ' le chief ti n of a Sbivoi d Zellia (Paul. Diac iv. 40); and it atill bears the name of CUfy. and b ridi in ancient architectural retoaina. (Camp. Itin. Anton, p. 12S ; Itin. Hieroa. p.560; Uucbar, iVortnm, vol. L p. 161.) [L. 8] CELE'NDERIS (Ktrr3tpli : EA. Ki?.trSt- plngi; Chtlendreh), a town of Pamphjiia, ai the aettiemenl, which was aflemards o«Dj«ed bj the i<amian>. (UeU, i. 13.) There was a tempk of Juno near Uie town, and a river It. which flowed bj them to the tea. (Scjnmoa, quoted bj nerodian.) It is dcscrihea bj Taiilua (Ann. ii. 80) as a very atnmg plati, oa a high rock nearlj nuimuided bj CELENHA, a town of Camp hj Virjril (AtK vii, 739) who apptaii to place it (in conjunction witb Bafiae and Batulnm) oo the bordera of the Campanian pbun. Sarrioa («/ he.) aaja " locua aot Campaniae, ncer JunooL' Via Grid DO other mention id it, and ita aitnatica ii unknown. [E. B. B.J CELETRUM (KaitarU). a town of Orestia in Macedonia, aitoated on a peninanU which ia sur- ronnded hy the watera of a lake, and ha* onl; a single entrance over a narrow isthmus which oj«- necti it with the contlDent In the tirat Uar«- dmian campaign of the Romans, in B. c. SOO, the consul SuliBCins, after having imwted this plate, which tabmittid to him, returned to Oasaantia, and from thence i^ramed ApoUonia, tha place trtxa which he bad departed on thia eipeditiacL (Ijv. iui.40.) The podtiea is go rffnarkable that Ibeta is no difficulty in identifjing it with the modern for. tress of Kaitorid. Tbe lake, which bean Ih* «un«  name, is about six miln long and [bur broad. Tbe peninsula is nearij four milee in drcnmierenn, and tbe oDler point ia IM far from the centr« of the lake. The pment fortiAcation of Kaitnril onsisu only of a wall acrtu the W. extremity of the isthmus, which waa bnilt in the time rf the Byian- tine empire, and has a wet ditch, making the ]«in- snla an iiUuid. In the middle of the wall ilands a Bqoare tower, through which ia the only entrance to the town. Tbe rains of a paralld wall fiankid with round towera, which m Byantine timca cnascd the peninsDla from shore to shore, excloding all the E. part of it, Btin divide the Turkish and Greek qnarteraoftbe town. In a. ik 1084 AIomL todc Caatorin (Ksirra^), which was defended by the brave and fluthfal BTynuilDs. (Anna Conn. ^fenaa, fi. p. I.tS; Le Beau, Bai Empin, vd. it. p. 155.) Tbe accnrato description of Castoria, aa Cokod Leake (vol, i, p. 329) remaika, by Anna Comaana (I, c) aiiowa that no great change has occarred since that time. ForUger (vol. iii. p. IOfi0)sappoaeatbat one of the nnioerons towns which derived thiir name from Diocletian [Dioct-ETIANOFOUs] after- wards stood npon the site of Cdetrmn, bat the podtiDo) given by Piwi^aB (^Aii. ii. 3), and ttas