C£L 
Little bags or bladders, where fluids, or matter of different 
forts, are lodged ; common in the (trudture both of ani¬ 
mals and plants. Quincy. 
CEL'LAR,/. [cclla, Lat.] A place under ground,where 
ftores and liquors are repofited.—If this fellow had lived in 
the time of Cato, he v would, for his punifhment, have been 
confined to the bottom of a cellar during his life. Pcacham. 
CEL'LARAGE, f. The part of tlie building which 
makes the cellars.—A good afeent makes a houfe whole- 
fome, and gives opportunity for cellarage. Mortimer. 
CEL'LARER, f. [from cellerarius , Lat.] An officer in 
monafteries, to whom belonged the care and procurement of 
provifions for the convent. The denomination is (aid to 
be borrowed from the Roman law, where cellarius denotes 
an examiner of accounts and expences. The cellarius was 
one of the four great officers of monafteries : under his or¬ 
dering was'the prijlinum, or bakehoufe, and the bracinum, 
or brewhoufe. In the richer houfes there were particu¬ 
lar lands fet apart for the maintenance of his office, called, 
in ancient writings, ad cibum monachorum . The cellerarius 
was a great man in the convent. His whole office, in an¬ 
cient times, had a refp.efl to that origin ; he was to fee his 
lord's corn got in, and laid up in granaries ; and his ap¬ 
pointment confided in a certain proportion thereof, ufualiy 
a thirteenth part of the whole, together with a furred 
gown. The office of cellarer then only differed in name 
from thofe of bailiff and minftrel; excepting that the cel¬ 
larer had the receipt of his lord’s rents through the whole 
extent of his jurildi&ion. Cellarer was alfo an officer in 
chapters, to whom belonged the care of the temporals, and 
particularly the diftribufmg of bread, wine, and money, to 
canons, on account of their attendance in the •choir. In 
Lome places he was called cellarer , in others burfer, and in 
others currier. 
CELLA'RIUS (Chrifiopher), a learned voluminous 
writer, born in 163S, at Smalcalde, in Franconia. His fa¬ 
ther was minifterof the town, and his mother was daugh¬ 
ter of the famous divine Joachim Zehners. He began his 
Studies in the college of Smalcalde, and at eighteen was re¬ 
moved to Jena, to finiflt his education in that univerfity. 
He (laid three years in this place, where he applied to claf- 
(ical learning under Bofuis, to philofophy under Bechman, 
to the oriental languages under Frifchmuth, and to mathe¬ 
matics under Weigelius. He took his doctor's degree in 
1666. The year following he was made profefforof He¬ 
brew and moral philofophy at Weiffenfels, and he filled 
this charge for feven years. In 1673 he was called to 
Weymar, to be rector of the college there. He kept this 
employment three years, and quitted it for another of the 
fame kind at Zeits. After two years, the college of Merf- 
bourg was offered to him, which he accepted. His learn¬ 
ing, his abilities, and his diligence, foon rendered this col¬ 
lege famous, and drew a great number of (Indents; and the 
place was fo agreeable to him, that he determined to end 
his days there. But Providence difpofed of him other- 
wife ; for, th.e king of Pruffia having founded an univer¬ 
fity at Halle in 1693, he prevailed upon him to be profeffor 
of eloquence and hiftory in it. Here he compofed a great 
part of his works. His great application fhortened his 
days, and haftened on the infirmities of old age. He was 
a longtime afflidted, but could-never be perfuaded to feek 
affiftance from medicine. He died in 1707, in his fixty- 
ninth year. He publifhed good editions of above twenty 
Latin and Greek authors; and, although he was a very 
voluminous writer, yet he publifhed nothing in haffe ; no¬ 
thing but what was quite corretl and finiflied, and what 
was likewife of great utility. His works relate chiefly to 
grammar, geography, hillory, and the oriental languages. 
His works in geography are well known, as excellent helps 
to the underdanding of ancient authors. 
CEL'LE, or Marien Celle, a town of Germany, in 
the duchy of Lower Stiria, on the confines of Audria, with 
a celebrated abbey, to which the emprefs Maria Therefa 
prefented *a (ilver image of the Virgin, after the birth of 
the emperor Jofeph II. twelve miles north of Pruck. 
CEL'LE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Two Sevres, and chief place of a canton, in the diftmet’of 
Melle : ten miles fouth-eaft of Niort. 
CEL'LE SUR THIERS, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Pny-de-Dome: two leagues E. Thiers. 
CELLEFROU'I N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the didrffik 
of La Rochefoucauld : nine miles north of La Rochefou¬ 
cauld. 
CELLI'NI (Benvenuto), a celebrated Sculptor and en¬ 
graver of Florence, born in 1500, and intended to be trained 
to the profeilion of ntufic ; bur, at fifteen years of age, h'e 
bound himfelf, contrary to his father’s inclinations, to a 
jeweller and goldfmith, under whom he made fuel) a pro¬ 
gress, as presently to rival the moil fkilfu! in the pro- 
lellion. He alfo dilcovered an early taffe for drawing and 
defigning, which he afterwards cultivated. Nor did he 
negledt mufic ; tor, allifting at a concern before Clefnetir 
VII. that pope took him into hisfervice, in the double ca¬ 
pacity of goldfmith and mufician. Heapplied himfelf alfo 
to fcal.engraving, learned to make curious damafkeemngs 
of (feel and filvor on Turkifh daggers, &c. and was very 
ingenious in medals and rings. But Cellini excelled in 
arms, as vveli as in arts; and Clement VII. valued him as 
much for h : s bravery, as for his (kill in his profeilion. 
When the duke of Bourbon laid liege to Rome, and the*, 
city w as taken and plundered, the pope committed the 
caflle of St. Angelo to Cellini, who«defended it like a ntau 
bred to arms, and did not differ it to furrender but by ca¬ 
pitulation. Cellini, however, was one of thofe great wits 
who may truly be faid to have bordered upon madnefs; he 
was of a delultory, capricious, unequal, humour; and this 
involved him perpetually in adventures, which were often 
near being fatal to his interefis. He travelled among the 
cities of Ralv, but chiefly redded at Rome, where he was 
fometimes in favour with the great, and fometimes not. 
He conforted with all the fir(t artilts in their feveral ways, 
with Michael Angelo, Julio Romano, See. Finding hitrt- 
leif at length upon ill terms in Italy, he formed a refoltt- 
tion of going to France ; and, palling front Rome through 
Florence, Bologna, and Venice, lie arrived at Padua,where 
lie was kindly received by the famous Pietro Bentbo. 
From Padua he travelled through Swilferland, vifited Ge¬ 
neva in his way to Lyons, and, after reding a few days in 
this lad city, he arrived at Paris. He met with a graci¬ 
ous reception from Francis I. who would have taken him 
into his fervice ; but, conceiving a didike to France, from 
a hidden illnefs lie fell into there, he returned to Italy. 
He was fcarcely arrived, when, being accufed of having 
robbed the caftle of St. Angelo of a great treafure at the 
time that Rome was facked by the Spaniards, he was ar- 
reded and lent toprifon. Being fet at liberty, after many 
harddiips and difficulties, he was fent for by the French 
king, and he fet out with the cardinal Ferrara for Paris; 
where, when they arrived, being difguded at the cardinal’s 
propoftng what he thought an inconsiderable Salary, he let 
off abruptly upon a pilgrimage to Jernfalem. He was, 
however, purlued, and brought back to the king, who fet¬ 
tled a handl’ome (alary upon him, adigned him a houle to 
live in at Paris, and granted him naturalization. But 
here, getting into (crapes and quarrels, and particularly 
having offended Madame d’Edainpes, the king’s midrefs, 
he was expofedto endlefs troubles and persecutions; with 
which at length being wearied out, he obtained the king’s 
permiffion to return to Italy, and went to Florence, where 
he was kindly received by Cofmo de Medici, the grand 
duke, and he engaged himfelf in hisfervice. Here again 
difguded with Some of the duke’s Servants, he went to Ve¬ 
nice, where he was careffed by Titian, Sanfovino, and 
other ingenious artids; but, after a ffiort day, he returned 
to Florence, and refumed his bufinefs. He died in 1570. 
His life, written in theTufcan language, was not publidted 
till 1730, in one volume 4to. as abounding, we prefume, 
with perfonal anecdotes and driiftures, which would not 
Suffer its appearance Sooner: and it was tranflated into 
Englilli, 
