a name given by some writers to the Florentine marble which appears to represent towns, palaces, ruins, rivers, &c.

CITHÆRON, a famous mountain, or rather a mountain range, in the south of Boeotia, separating that state from Megaris and Attica. It was very celebrated in Grecian mythology, and is frequently mentioned by the great poets of Greece, especially by Sophocles. It was on Cithæron that Acteon was changed into a stag, that Pentheus was torn to pieces by the Bacchantes whose orgies he had been watching, and that the infant Oedipus was exposed. This mountain, too, was the scene of the mystic rites of Bacchus; and the festival of the Daedala in honour of Juno was celebrated here.