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 CHELOMIDES LACCS. CHELiyKIDl'^S LACUS (ul XtXmrOti Xlfuut), ft series of Utes (appiveiit); thns), formed bj the TiTer Geir in Ljbis Interior, the middle one being plmd by Ptolem; in 49° long., utd 20° N. bt. Tbey mm to conEiipiHid to the three lak« of Ba- tkathim, Maiaiu or Badiba, ud Fitire, the last and Urgnt cf which lies E. of Zofa ]~c&aL ir. 6. § 13; cwmp. Geir ind Libta.) [P. &] CHEMMIS (X'fifui). U>e ebief bnrn of ths ChBnunite Monw in the Thebud, and one cf the moat mcient ritjes in Egrpt, stood Dpon ths easteni bank of the Nils, oppcnte to a river-iBbud of mmilaf unM. Chemmit eubseqnentlj became Fuiopolis, under which title it ia men puticalulr described. [Pakopous.] From the Cbemmite nome, and atj of ths Thebsid, mnst be distinguished ths Chemmito or Chembite nome, and floating island Cbsmmii or Chambis, near the city af BuLo in the Delta. [BuTo.] The ethnic word Ciam or Ham, and also the Coptic appelUtiim of the Nile Vsllef— El Chewii or the Black Earth, — are appuently conlUDed in the name of Chemmis; and ths citj was ancient enoogb to have b«en ntarlj contempotarj witb the aboriKines of the Thebaic. [W. B. D.] CHEN or CHENAE (X^v, SUpfa. D. *.>.; X^i'cu, PBiiSnI>iad.; £U. Xtiwi, Xnntui), lbs luithplace of Hjson, whom Plato and others menttm as one of tbe Seven Sago of Greece. (Plat. Prolog, p. 343, a.) There was a diipnte among the ondsnta it- ^ieeting Ibis place, some pUcing it in Thesulf at the foot eC Mt. Oeta, and others in Laconin (Diog. LaSrt. L lOG); hut the balance of anthoiitiea i» m laToor of the IboEBr of tli«e two >ituatiaDe. Fan- aantu (i. 34. § 1) calls it a Tillage on Ut. Oeta; and Diodoms {ExcsrpL da Virl. et Vit. p. S3S) de- scribes UjiOD as a Malton, who dwelt in the Tillage of Chcnae. Stephanos B., on the ether hand, pla«s Chen ID Idconia. It has been ccnjeclnred that this confusion maj haTs aiisen iiom the cotonj which tbe Lacedaemonians Joonded in ths diatriot of Oela. (Thnc. til. 9S.) CHESOBO-SCIA, or CHENOBO'SCIUM (Xi|- meeotia, Ptfo0aj<ET)]i), or the Gooae-pens, was a district of tbe Thebaid in E^pt, m the eastern side of the Nile, 40 miha SW. of Coptos, ana in lal It la; nearlj iqiposile the cities of Dicepolis Parva, and LepiddUm Poiis, and contained a citj, or hamlet, also deoominated Chenoboscia. The name of the Goose-pen indicates the porpoee to which this tract of water-meadows was appropriated, sHbmgh, in- deed, a geographer cilad b; Stephanos Bti. (i. i.) deniee Ibe exiatenceof goose-pastufss at GheoolMecia, and asf B that, on the contrary, the meadows •a a pen, or pieserTe of crorodilBs. But whe mnembasd that the goose was a faToorile riaod of the Egyptian priests (Herod. iL ST), that the bird was Bcnd to Iiis, and is freqaently depicted moanmental reciHils of Egyptian dnuestic liS Bellini, M. C. iT., liii., &c. ^.), and that its were lutd in wriliiig, it eeems not nnUlcely that Bcnw districts m the Nik Valley should bsTe been a[fin>priated to Ibe Ruing <rf geese. [W. B. D.} CHHBEU (4 X(H». cr Xup^, Schol.inA'ica)Mr T^terwc. p.623i It. Anton, p. 154-5; Greg. Na- liam. Or. ai. p. 391, " S. Anion, p. 640), siqipoaed to be the modem Tillage of Kviun in the I^ta of Egypt Aco^ding ' the rather conSictiiig Cheren vat sboat mid-way between Akxaodina and Hermopolis, being about SO or 34 ntUes from (dther. The name, howsrer, ia comparatiTely of recent date, and seems to be a purely Coptic appel- latioa, answering to the Hellenic 3x<^^a, or Packet- boat. Chena, according to the abore-dted scboUaat on Nicander, was near to Schedia (comp. Slntb. itIL p. 800), and seems in Ruman times to haTS enper- eeded it, ^ such matations in places of anchorage being connnco in riTcra which, like tbs Nile, bring- ing down great Tolumes of allavial scnl periodically, change the approach 10 their tanks. At Schedia or Cheren, was statimed a general ferry-boat, ef which Uie toll fOTmed port ef the reraines if ths Hemto- poUta nome. [W. B. D.] CHERITH (Xtppit, LXX.), a hrmk mentioud only in the history of Ehjah (1 Kmgt, itIL 3 — 7) Ltbont any farther notice of ita EituatioD than that was " before Jordan," an expicsaiaL wluch might either wgnifj east of the Jordan, or on the way to tbe Jordan. No valoe whalever can be attached to Dr. Robmson's attempt to identify it with Wadg Kelt (Sti. Rai. vol. iL p. 288), a small alream which runs throngh a rocky Talley immediately to the north of the road between Jemsalcm and Jericho, and which ationed in the bizdera of Judah and Benjamin. (JoaS. IT. 7.) [G. W.] CHERSONE'SUS (X.piriinio'or), a nama borne by three places in Crete. 1. A point on the W. coast, identified with Egnmiii, near Ponto di Corbo (llol. iiL 17. § a ; Hoeck, Kreia, Tol. i. p. 379.) 2. (FtoLiii.17. § 5; Stadiaam. §331, 332, Hiorocl.), the haven of Lyclns, with a temple of Britomartis (StnA. x. p. 479). 16 M. P. Inm Cnoesns. (Peat. Tab.) Hr. Pashley (T'raf. vol. i. p. 268) {bond mina clces to a little port on tba shore, and the actual names of the villages JTAer- ti»aot and Epitcopiani, indicate that bav b to ba fonnd what was once the anckot port of Lyctns, and afterwards became on Episcopal city. (Uoeck, Ttd. L p. 408.) 3. Stnbo (iTil p. 838) doacribes the great haiu bonr of Cyrenaica near the promontory of Ardanaies as lying oppoeite to Cberwneana of Crete ; the some author (x. p. 479) [Jaoes Praesns between tbs Samonian promontory and Cbersonesna. There mnat have been, tberefiire, a pdnt to the S of the island bearing this name the posilion of which ia not knorm. (Hoeck, Tol L p. 432 ) Eckbel. vol. ii. p. 307) [E.B.J.] CHEBSONESUS AUREA. [Anrau.] CUEKSONE'SUS CI'UBBICA (XepffiWrot KwSpuc^ 1 Jntimid), the torge peninsula tenninat' ing on the N. in ^e prononMrMn Cimbnnm, betwecD the German Ocean on the W. and the timu Lagmu and Codam on the E. (Ptd. ii. 1 1. § 2 j Stiab. p. 293.) Strabo ia the Gnt anraent authority mentjuung this peninsula, for it was cnly during 'of Tiberina in the north-west of