Cerinthus

, now Zero , a town of Eubœa, whose inhabitants went to the Trojan war, headed by Elphenor son of Chalcedon. Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 , li. 45 .— Strabo , bk. 10 .――A beautiful youth, long the favourite of the Roman ladies, and especially of Sulpitia, . Horace , bk. 1 , Statius , bk. 2 , li. 81 .――One of the early heretics from christianity.