in Grecian antiquity, a Lesbian festival, wherein the women presented themselves in Juno's temple, and the prize was assigned to the fairest. There was another of these contentions at the festival of Ceres Eleusina among the Parrhaeans, and another among the Eleans, where the most beautiful man was presented with a complete suit of armour, which he consecrated to Minerva, to whose temple he walked in procession, being accompanied by his friends who adorned him with ribbons, and crowned him with a garland of myrtle.

CALLISTHENES the philosopher, disciple and relation of Aristotle, by whose desire he accompanied Alexander the Great in his expeditions; but proving too severe a censurer of that hero's conduct, he was by him put to the torture (on a suspicion of a treasonable conspiracy), and died under it, 328 years before Christ.