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its aim, and always returned to the hands o-f its miftrefs of 
its own accord. Some fay that the dog was a prefent front 
Vunos, becaufe Procris had cured his wounds. After this, 
Procris returned in difguife to Cephalus, who was willing 
to di/grace himfelf by fotneunnatural conceflions toobtain 
the dog and the dart of Procris. Procris difeovered her- 
felf at the moment that Cephalus thewed himfelf faithlefs, 
and a reconciliation waseafily made between them. They 
loved one another with more tendernefs than before, and 
Cephalus received front his wife the prefents of Diana. 
As he was particularly fond of hunting, he ever}' morning 
early repaired to the woods, and after much toil and fa¬ 
tigue laid himfelf down in the cool thade, and earneftly 
called for Aura, or the refrething breeze. This ambiguous 
word was miftaken for the name of a ntiftrefs ; and forne 
informer reported to the jealous Procris, that Cephalus 
daily paid a vifit to a ntiftrefs, wbofe name was Aura. 
Procris too readily believed the information, and fecretly 
followed her hutband into the woods. According to his 
daily cuftom, Cephalus retired to the cool, and called after 
Aura. At the name of Aura, Procris eagerly lifted up 
her head to fee her expected rival. Her motion occafioned 
a ruffling- among theleavesof the bufn that concealed her; 
and, as Cephalus liftened, he thought it to be a wild beaft, 
and he let fly his unerring dart. Procris was ftruck to 
the heart, and inftantly expired in the arms of her hufband, 
confefling that ill-grounded jealoufy was the caufe of her 
death. According to Apollodorus, there were two per- 
fons of the name of Cephalus ; one, fon of Mercury and 
Herfe, carried away by Aurora, with whom he dwelt in 
Syria, and by whom lie had a fon called Tithonus. The 
other married Procris, as mentioned above'. Ovid. 
CE PHF.US, a king of /Ethiopia, father of Androme¬ 
da, by Calliope. He was or.e of the Argonauts, "and was 
changed into a confteliation-after his death. Ovid. —Apol¬ 
lodorus mentions one, fon of Aleus, and another, fon of 
Belus. The former he makes king of Tegea, and father 
of Sterope ; and fays, that he, with his twelve fons, af- 
fifted Hercules in a war againft Hippocoon, where they 
were killed. The latter he calls king of ./Ethiopia, and 
father of Andromeda. 
CE'PHEUS, f. a conftellation of the northern hemif- 
phere, being one of the forty-eight old afterifms. The 
fears of this conftellation, in Ptolemy’s catalogue are 13, 
in Tycho's j i, in Hevelius’s 51, and in the Britannic ca¬ 
talogue 35. 
CEPHTSUS and Cephissus, a celebrated river of 
Greece, that'rifes at Lilae in Phocis, and after palling at 
the north of Delphi and mount Parnaffus, enters Boeotia, 
where it flows into the lake Copais. The Graces were 
fabled asbeingparticularly fondof this river, whence they 
are called the goddefles of the Cephifus. There was a 
river of the fame name in Attica, and another in Argolis. 
Strabo. 
CE'PI COR'PUS, inlaw, a return made by the fheriff 
upon a capias, or other procefs to the like purpofe, that he 
hath taken the body of the party. 
CE'PIC, a town oflllria : four miles fouth of Pedena. 
CEPOLA, yi in icthyology. the Ribbo n-Fish ; agenus 
belonging to the order of tfioracire. The generic cha- 
rafiers are—Body long, narrow, and thin, like a ribbon. 
Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Syft. Nat. has made 
a feparate genus of the cepola, which, in his earlier edi¬ 
tions, he had claffed under the ferpent-fhaped Allies, 
ttpb-dium. That eminent baturalift deferibes but one fpe- 
cies, ccpola tenia ; in which the bluntnefs of the head forms 
the fpecific chara/ier. There are fix rays in the membrane 
of the gills, fifteen in the pectoral fin, fix in the ventral, 
fixty in the anal, ten in the tail, and tixty-fix in the dorfal 
The head is broadeft at top ; the mouth large, opening 
obliquely ; the under jaw is the longeit, and both are 
armed with (harp teeth; the tongue is thin, broad, and 
rough. The eyes aie large, ftanding at the top < 5 f the 
head ; the pupil is black, the iris iilver mixed with blue ; 
there is a round hole in the inner edge of each eye. The 
e e r 
aperture of the gills is wide ; the covert Angle ; before the 
aperture are five minute holes, and feveral of the fame 
kind near the eye ; they probably fecrete a vifeous orflimy 
matter. This fifh has an extremely {lender and tapering 
fltape; the body being twelve inches in length, andfcarce- 
ly one in thicknefs: it is of a filvery colour, and femi-tranf- 
parent, fo that the vertebrae of the back appear, and canea- 
fily be numbered. The cepola has no fcales; the fides are 
adorned with lineal rows of filvery fpots. The peftoral 
fins are final!-, and their rays fo (lender, that they are al- 
moft imperceptible. About an inch behind the head, rifes 
the dorfal fin, which is produced till it joins the tail, where 
it meets the anal fin, which begins fo near the throat, that 
the anus is fituated almoft immediately below the angle of 
the lower jaw. The fins 'difplay a great brilliancy of co¬ 
lour, being of a moft beautiful red, with five fpots of a 
deeper or brighter caft, placed on each fide of the body. 
This fifh is fold in the markets of Rome; but its flefh, 
according to Rondeletius, is of a very indifferent qua- 
!ity. 
CER-AM', an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, about 
fifty leagues long, and twenty broad It is fuppofedto 
contain 30,000 fighting men ; but the internal parts are 
little known. Along the coafts, the Dutch have had in¬ 
fluence and power enough to deftroy the clove trees of the 
ifland, moreeffedlually to fecure the clove-trade to them- 
felves. Lat. 4. S. Ion. 127. to 131. E. Greenwich. 
CERAM' LAOUT, an ifland of the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the ifland of Ceram, above five miles long, and 
hardly three wide ; mountainous and uninhabited. It has 
a bay on the north coaft. 
CERAM'BYX, f. in entomology, a genus of infects 
belonging to the order of cole'opotera ; and of which Lin¬ 
naeus enumerates no lefs than eighty-three fpecies. Their 
antennae are formed of articulations or joints, gradually 
diminifhing in iize from the bafe to their extremity. The 
thorax is either armed with fnines, or gibbous, made un¬ 
even by final! elevations. The elytra are narrow, and 
throughout of equal breadth ; and the lpecies admit of the 
following fubdivifions : 1. With the thorax on each fide 
■armed with moveable fpines. 2. With the thorax mar¬ 
gined, and the fides armed with fpines. 3. With the tho¬ 
rax round, and armed with fixed fpines. 4. With the 
thorax nearly cylindrical, and unarmed, the fpines want¬ 
ing. 5. With the thorax of a roundifh form, and de- 
prefied on the upper fide The mulk-beetle, or goat- 
chaffer, frequently found in the willow, is a carambyx. 
The larvae of thefe infers moftly fubfift on the inner bark 
of trees, and in which fituation they moftly undergo their 
transformations. 
In the annexed plate are given five remarkable fpecies of 
cerambyx ; fome of which, in warm countries, grow to an 
enormous fize. Fig. r, is the cerambyx giganteus, men¬ 
tioned in Fabricius 8, p. j6j. The prdent'figure was 
taken of its natural fize from the real infect, by Mr. Dru¬ 
ry ; it meafured fix inches and three-quarters in length, 
and was brought from Cayenne, in South America. The 
head and thorax are black ; all the reft of the infeft is a 
rich chefnut-brown, fomewhat mealy in front; the jaws 
are placed in an horizontal pofition, with the extremities 
bending inward, or towards each other. The eyes are 
black, and fo fituated as to difeern objefts both above and 
below at the fame time ; the antennae are thickeft at their 
bafe, and are about half the length of the infect, gradually 
diminifhing in fize to their extremities. The thorax i* 
frnooth, and convex at top, the middle appearing bke po- 
lifhed fteel ; the fides are rough, like fliagreen, and are 
armed with two fhort or pointed fpines like horns ; it is 
alfo margined. The fcutellum, or efcutcheon, is final!, 
and fhaped like a bell ; the elytra are deeply margined on 
their fides and future, and have five longitudinal ribs, with 
theirfurfaces rough like fifh-fkin. The under fides of the 
abdomen are covered with a dark brown pile, exactly like 
velvet. The legs are terminated with Itrong articulations 
and forked fpines, which aflift it in its paflage over fmooth 
furfaces^ 
