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 Ctatu, ft pb ehida, nfao n >nd other CN0PUP0LI8. IB obaemiatT (ffcmrl^) at ne HiW tliB * " mndi higbc kutlior of « PeniH Tt of Cnidm ; and ilta Agattuir 1 treatiH DO iht EiTtbiseui wa The Cnidiui were fcod of art, thoDgli the eHj did Dot produce uliata. Tbej placed a lUtiu of JnpiUr at Oljmpia, with a atat Palops no one ode of it, and the river Alpbeioa on the other. (Paon. ». 24. § 7.) They aUo art Delphi a statue of TriojM, Clu eo- called fauni their cil7, a figure of ■ man nanding bj a I and 1 Leto. and Apollo and Artemli, thooting ■rrowa at Tityna. (Pitu. x. II, § 1.) The punting of Poljgnotiu, at Delphi, called Loche, wi oOering of the Cnidii. (Piui. i.25.§ I.) Aphndile wai worshipped atCnidul,and the place wae en ppoBcd tobeoneof harftvoorileaboden. (Hor.Orf.i.Sr ■■ 38.) Pauaaniai mentioiutbiM temples of Aphndita at Cnidna; in the oldtet the nu woisbipped aa Dorildg, in a eecoiid as Acraat, and in the third and most ractnt as Cnidia, or, aa the Cnidians called ha, Euploea, the deitj of mariDen (L I. § 3). Cnidiu poueaHd the atatne of the naked A[^radile of Praiilelea, of Parian marble, one of the great works of Grsciaii i^ini. The atatne stood in a chamber with two doon, K) that the Bgnre caald be aeen on both aidea. People need to rislt Cnidna to aee the beauIifolgoddeH. (PluLuirii. S.) Nicomedea, kbg af Bithjuia, oSered to buj this predona work from the Cnidiana bj paifinK the whole of the pnbhc debt of Cnidna, which was large, but the Cnidiaiu pre- hmi to keep their goddeei and their debt. Lucian, (,Aaor. ell, kc), or the author of the little piece that ii printed in tncian'i works, hai described the atatne with the feeling of an artist. {Diet, of Biogr. art. Praxil^tt, where the various passages are n- Theco to.) CNOPUTOLIS. [EarrmiAK.] CNOPUS. [BoBcmA, p. 413, b.] CNOSUS, or ONOSDS, sobsBoiieiitij CNOSSUS, or ONOSSUS (K>™r.Ji, lUrmsri,, TimnSs, Frva- v6i: Etk. and A^. Kriamt, Knwnrioi, Tri- ffwi, rnhriTiat, Gnoeiua, GiiosiacuA, ./en. Gnosis, Gooaias; Mikro-TeHJui), the royal ciiy of Crete, sitnalal to the N. of the island, SK. of Matium, and 23 U. P. frran Gortyna (Pent. Tab.). It originally vas called Caeoatds (Kafparoi, Strab. i. p. 476) fiom the small river of that name which flowed beneath its walls. (Callim. ^yiTin. Dun. v. 44.) Tiitta (Hesych. a. r. TjJtto), was a name that had been aome time applied (o it. Pliny (ir. 20), who phtcca Cnoeaus among the inlaod cities, and Ptolemy (iii. 17. % IO)i are quits wrong in the positions they assign to it. Strabo's text {I. c.) is iindonbtedly cor- nipt (cOTip. Groakoni, in foe. ; Hoeck, Crtla, vol L COBDLATUS. ^ p.40S)i and this may in port save to aeomlt fortha ^ difficulty that has been fbuwl in leancdHng iht atabe^^^^^ ments of this writer, who was so intimately acooBctcd T with CniBeiu, with the known piaitiai i£ Ibe citjr. ^ lla fonndatjon was attributed to the htm of Cntaa p^ (Horn. Od. li 178> hood was the choeen seat cf i^end as district was peculiarly comtected with 7a river Tethria, « Theron, aooxding t the marriage of Zeua and Hera waa (Died. T. 72.) The most rwdved mythos asapiai '^ the biilb:^BC« aa well as the tonbeofthe "Father ^ of glSsmSlneo " to this loodityJ Tile wdl-kovwa „^ Cretan labyrinth is onifonnly attached to Cneoaa. i^ It was described aa a building erected by nanlaliia, ^ and theibodeoftbeHiDatau-(Diad.LBl;Apollod. ' iii. 4). This miHmment could nevo* have bad any ^ actual BxiateDce, but mnst be considered aimply aa ^ > a wok of the imagination of the later poeta and _ ^ writers. The Homeric poems, Hesiod aid Hen- ~ dotus, are all equally silent on the subject of this ^ edifice. The Ubyrinthial construclioo is ecnentiallj y Aegyptian, and it wonld seem piebalile that the £ nstonl caverns and excaraled sepolehres still to ba ^ ■een near Cnoesus. and which were Ofiginally used nJ for religious worship, SDggeated, after Che iutradnc- r^ lion of A^yptian mythology into Greece, the idea ^ of the labyrinth and Its fabled occupant (Cianp. B Uoeck, Knla, toL L pp. S6, foil.) ^ ^ and frmn it Dorian InstitulionB spread over the whole island. It preserved its rank smcmg the chief a^m of Crete for some time, and by its aUiance with Gortyna obtained the dominion over nearly the wEnls island. Polybins (iv. 53) has given an account of the civil ware wbicb diatracted Crete, and in which CnoaiQB took part. Afterwards it became a Boshd colony. (Strah. t. p. 477.) All the now tliaCuir vestiges of the ancient " metn^lis " of Cm© art some rude mssaee of Roman hrif^-work, parts of the so-called long wall, from which the modem nsnie <i the site has been derived. (Fashley, Trta. toL L p. 204.) CheiBphron, or Cleiiptun, and Ids ion Hetagenes, the architects of the gnat temple of Artemis, wen natives of this dty, as nil as Aenesidemus the philosopher, and Ergoteles, whoes viclorita in the Olympian, Pythian, and Isthnuan gamea, are celebrated hy Pindar {(Hymp. iii. 19). For cfliiH of Cnossne, both autmumoua aui imporiaJ, see Eckhel, toL ii. p. 307. The uanal ^|ie is tha hibyrinlh the forma since they repment oolj a poetical creatim an natorally varted. [E. B J.]. COBDLATOS.or, as Folybios (iiii. 18) writa it, CoLOBATUS (KoAJBetsi), a river which the Roman general Cn. Manlioa crossed on his mstrh from the Caularej [CAtuiHiiaJ to Isionda (Liv niviii. 15). Al^r crouing the Canlares he pasaal ■he Caralitia Fslus [Carautis], and am to Uundropolia; from Ihence to Lsgon, Bear the sdwos ii ''..■■• :.:J;, /.X„,.,y,,^. ■■■■■:■■■■-- ■-.■-s^-e-^.