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CINCINNATI. neering, the Medical Departiuent, the Law De- partment, the Cliiiit-al and Pathological School of the Cinoinnati Hospital (alhliated), and the Ohio College of Dental Surgery (affiliated). The total endowment of the university, including Iniildings, equipment, and all sources of revenue, is about .i!;i,;i.57,000. The library eolleetion num- bers approximately (iS.OOO volumes and G,!,000 pamphlets. In IHOl there was a faculty of 1G4 and a student body of about 1100. CINCINNATI GROUP. See Ordovician System. CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Establislied by Theodore Tlioiiuis in i><7.i, the festivals have since been held bieiuiially, under his direction. Hitherto the festival had lasted he days — from Tuesday till Saturday, inclu- sive^ — within which period there were given seven concerts, five in the evenings and two in the afternoon (Thursday and Saturday) ; but in ]'J02 the season was reduced to four days and live concerts. The music is supplied by the Chicago Orchestra (q.v.), augmented for the occasion by a local chorus of about 500 voices, and well-known soloists. The festival has been an invariable artistic success, but has fi'cqucntly entailed considerable financial sacrifice on the part of those responsible for the undertaking. CINCINNATO, chen'chS-na'ta, Komolo (c.l52o-c.l('iOO) . An Italian painter. He was born in Florence, but the greater part of his life v.as spent in Spain. He was invited by Philip II. to decorate the Eseorial, and painted the cloister in fresco, and several pictures in the church. There are paintings by Cincinnato in the palace of the Duke del Infantado at Guadalajara, and in the Jesuit Church at Cuenca. CIN'CINNA'TTJS, Lucius Quinctius. A hero of the semi-legendary period of Roman his- tory. He was regarded by the later Romans as the model of antique virtue and simple manners. So far as we can discern his character through the veil of legend, Cincinnalus appears tn have licen an iincompromising patrician. About n.c. 400, he was clioscn consul, and two years later was made dictator. The story spys that when the messengers from Rome came to tell Cincin- natus of his new dignity, they found him plow- ing on his small farm. He soon rescued the Consul Lucius Minucius. who had been defeated and surrounded by the .Equi. After .■> dictator- ship of sixteen days, Cincinnatus returned' to his small farm on the 'I'ilier. When eighty years old, he was once more made dictator (B.C. 439), and suppressed a threatened plebeian insurrec- tion. CINCIUS (sin'shi-us) AL'IMENTTIS, Lu- cks. A Roman annalist of some note, ])rctor in Sicily in n.c. 209. He wrote in the Greek tongue a nmnber of works, chief among which is his Annalcx. containing an account of the Second Punic War. During this war he himself ■was imprisoned by Hannibal, who graciously gave him an accotmt of the Carthaginian nuirch through Gaul and across the Alps. His work was more carefully critical than that of most historical students of his time. Consult Pliiss, Dc Cinciis Rerum Romanorum Scriptoribus (Bonn. 1. «!«;•)). CIN'DEREL'LA (from ritider. with dim. termination -clla ; cf. Fr. Cendrillon, and Ger. 752 CINNA. Aschenbrodel, or Aschenputtel, of similar mean- ing). An old fairy tale of Oriental origin. It existed iu Egypt in a h-gend of Kliodopis and Psammetichus. It appears in German lore iu the sixteenth century, and is among the fairy- tales of Grimm. Perrault and Jladame d'Aunoy l)0]mlarized it for seventeentli-century France. It deals with the marriage of a household drudge to a prince who discovers her by finding her marvelously suuiU glass slipper, which excites his curiosity as to the owner, and which no Court lady is able to wear. The 'glass' slipper is an error, arising from the confusion of vcne, glass, with the old vair, fur. CIN'EAS (Lat., from Gk. Kin?os, AiHcas). A Thessalian, the chief adviser of Pyrrhus. King of Epirus. He was a skilled diplomatist, well versed in the art of persuasion, Pyrrhus saying of him that he had won more cities by his words than he had won by his arms. His most famous' work was in visiting Rome, to arrange for peace, after the defeat of the Romans in n.c. 2S0. While in Rome lie learned, in a single day, it is said, the name of every man of importance in the city. He was not successful in securing ])eace, and when he returned he told Pyrrhus that Rome was a temple, and its Senate an assembly of kings. CINEMAT'OGRAPH. See Kinetoscope. CIN'ERA'RIA ( Xeo-Lat. nom pi., from Lat. rbirrarius, ashy, from ciiiis, ashes). A genus of plants belonging to the order Composita-, and related to Senecio (q.v.), from which the species are separated by some minor characters. As commonly understood, the species are numerous and widely distributed: but as recently limited, there are only about 25 s])ecies, all of which are indigenous to South Africa. The other species are mostly grouj)ed with Senecio. The most common garden Cineraria by this classification becomes a Senecio. The jjlants are annual or perennial herbs, with simple-toothed or sinuate- lobcd leaves, and many are notable on account of the ashy apiiearance of their lower leaves; hence the name (Latin cinis, -cris, ashes;. The Cinerarias are popular greenhouse plants: and on acount of the ease of cultivation, free bloom- ing, and lasting qualities they are much grown. .There has been much discussiiui regarding the species most cultivated. Cineraria cruenta, many strains of which are known. By some it is claimed as a development from the wild species, while others maintain it is a hybrid between Cineraria cruenta and other species, all of which are natives of the Canary Islands. The single-llowcred forms are the most popular. CIN'ERARY URNS. Urns used by the na- tions of antiquity to contain the ashes of the dead wlien gathered from the funeral pile. Among the Greeks the urn was buried like a coffin. Among the Romans it was frequently placed in a niche iu the family mausoleum or iu one of the great columbaria (q.v.). See Bukul; Cre- M.TIOX. CINGALESE, sin'gft-lez', or SirfonAi-ESE. See Ckyi.ox. CINNA, OU LA CLEMENCE D'AUGUSTE, si^'na, oo la klftmiixs' d'i'gijst'. A tragedy by Pierre Corneille. i)roduced in Paris in 1040, and published in the collected edition of his works, in 1044. It is supposed to lie his masterpiece, and deals with the temporary perfidy of a Ro-