the muse of epic poetry. She was thus named from the sweetness of her voice, and was the last of the nine sisters. Her distinguishing office was to record heroic actions; and she is represented with a tablet and style, or a roll of paper in her hand. See Muses.

CALLIPÆDIA, the name of a Latin poem in four books, by Claude Quillet de Chignon, a French abbot, who published it under the fictitious name of Claudius Latus. Its full title is Callipodia, seu de pulchria proles habendae ratione. This work was translated into English verse by Nicholas Rowe.