—WalfoU,  Memoiruy  toL  S,  p.  8,  Appejid.,  n.  41.)

ChilcidIcb,  I.  a  district  of  Macedonia,  between  the
Sinot  Thtnsucas  and  Strymonieua:  The  lower  part
of  It  fomad  ihiee  pentnanlea,  Pfalcgr*  or  Pallepe,  Si-
Aooii^  tat  Atboe.  The  araall  town  of  Ohakio  gave
maw  to  lUi  ^strict— II.  Another  in  Syria,  adjacent
laibclowoofChalcia.    (Vid.  Chsleis  V.)

CaiuiilajB  {ChtUddian),  an  epithet  qmKed  to
Cams  in  Italy,  as  boilt  by  a  cotony  ftom  UBalcis  in
Enbfflt.   [ViTg.,  JBn.,  6,  17.)

CtAtciacoB,  an  epithet  applied  to  Minerva  at
l^itrti,  frora  ber  having  a  braxen  temple  {xa^tmBc
•UKC).  Kt  W.  GtiU  in  his  aeaonnt  of  the  Treaaniy
St  Ai^os,  givea  a  reasonable  explication  ot  thi*  seein-
ngl*  itnnge  term.  He  discovered  in  the  interior
of  tbe  Tnsanry,  which  still  remains  in  a  great  de-
pee  miira,  a  number  of  brass  nails,  placed  through-
o«i  u  regular  intervals  on  the  walls,  and  these  he
■Bpfote*  wen  oiigindly  used  for  aecuring  plates  of
Ac  SUM  BMal  to  lbs  waB ;  and  hmco  tha  afamtng
faUesof  fcaten  ehambm  and  braxeo  temples.  In  a
milsr  awner  may  be  czfdained  the  account,  given
^  tbe  aneinna,  of  the  braien  vewel  made  fay  Eurys-
tixtts,  and  into  vthrch  he  retired  whenever  Hercules
Rtanied  from  his.  labours.    (GeWt  Argdu,  p.  33.)

Ciiiaa,  [.  (be  moat  cetebnted  and  important  cil^

Esboa,  rituata  on  the  nammeat  part  of  the  Enrt-

£•  According  to  tba  common  accoant,  it  was
odcd  sfier  the  eeige  of  Troy  by  an  Ionian  colony
^  Athens,  xmder  tlw  conduct  of  Cotbus.  {Strabo,
)  Odwr  authorities,  however,  have  assigned  to
*  >  Mieh  groaler  antiquity,  and  it  is  certain  that  Ho-
■vipeaksof  Cbalcis  aa  already  existing  before  the
«*U  above  menlioDed.  (//.,  S,  637.)  The  llourUh-
■C  naditioQ  of  this  great  Ionian  city,  at  a  very  eariy
fiod.  M  attested  by  iu  numerooa  colonies  on  the
of  Italy  and  Sicily,  aa  well  as  on  tbe  Thiacian
(Wt  inmnd  Pallene  and  Mount  Athoe.  Ariatotle,  as
))*abo  repoRa,  dated  these  estsblishments  from  tbe
P*n>l  wbn  the  goveraaunt  of  Chalcis,  through  the
Mieaet  of  tha  wealthiest  inhabitants,  named  HKppo-
|"*.baeasae  a  pare  atistocncy.  From  Herodotus
^"fjn*  fawn,  that  tha  Clwlndiini,  having  johwd


tbe  BcBotiua  in.  their  depredations  on  the  coast  of
Attica,  soon  after  the  ezpubion  of  the  Pisiatratida,
aSordod  ibe  Athenians  just  grounds  for  reprisaU.
