furnishing the world with flaves, Cicero, Horace. The Cappadocians paid a yearly tribute of fifteen hundred horfes, and two thousand mules to the Perfians, Strabo. Cappodox, cis, Horace, Stephanus; the gentilitious name. Alfo the name of an obfcure river, from which Cappadocia takes its name, Pliny. Cappadocus, and Cappadoca, ae, are other gentilitious forms, Martial, Columella. The people were anciently called Syri, Herodotus, and Leucofyri, Strabo. On the extinction of the royal family, the Romans, in confideration of the ancient league and friendship fubfifting between them, allowed them the enjoyment of their liberty; which they refused to accept of, alledging that they could not bear it, and therefore demanded a king; the Romans, in admiration of a people who spurned at liberty, permitted them to choose a king from among themselves. They were one of the three bad Kappa's, the Cretans and Cilicians being the other two; which was afterwards applied to the three Cornelii, Sylla, Cinna, and Lentulus: of this country were Strabo and Paufanias. CAPPARA. See CAPARA. CAPRARIA, Pliny; an ifland twelve miles from the Balearis Major, or Majorca; dangerous for fhipping, id. Now Cabrera, to the fouth of, and not far from Majorca. Also one of the Infulae Fortunatae, abounding in large lizards, Pliny. A third of Italy, nearer Corfica, called also Capraha, Varro; from its wild goats, id. and Aegilos, by the Greeks, Pliny.

CAPRASIA, Peutinger; Caprafiae, arum, Antonine'; a town of the Bruttii, eight miles above the river Crathis.

CAPRASIAE, arum, Pliny; one of the mouths of the Padus, or Po, to the north of that called the Padufa, the fouthmost mouth. CAPREAE, arum, an island in the Tufcan Sea, over-againit Surrentum, Dio; belonging to the Neapolitans, but exchanged with Auguftus for Pithecufa, and adorned with fplendid buildings by that

prince, Strabo: afterwards the retreat of Tiberius, acceffible at one fmall beach only, on every other 'fide furrounded with very steep rocks of a prodigious height, without a beach, Tacitus, Suetonius; where he continued feven years, till his death, Plutarch: the scene of his infamous debaucheries, Suetonius; forty miles in compafs, Pliny. The ancient inhabitants were the Teleboae, Tacitus, Virgil; famous for its great number of quails, which refort thither twice a year: now Capri. E. Long. 14° 11', Lat. 40° 34'. There stood a pharos on this ifland, which, a few days before the death of Tiberius, was overthrown by an earthquake, Suetoni

CAPRUS, Strabo; Caper, Pliny; a river of Phrygia Major, falling into the Meander at Laodicea. Another Caprus of Affyria, Ptolemy, Polybius; running into the Tigris, between Ninus and Seleucia: a name imposed by the Greeks, from the cognominal river in Phrygia. CAPSA, Salluft; a large and strong town of Numidia, fituate amidit vaft defarts, wafte, uncultivated, without water, and full of serpents: there Jugurtha kept his treasure, Strabo. Capfenfes the people, Salluft. Different from Ptolemy's Capfa, fituate in Byzacium. Another Capfa, Ptolemy, Pliny; in Libya Interior, near the fprings of the Bagrada.

CAPUA,

CAPUA, a very ancient city of Campania, Paterculus; the head or capital of its diftrict, and all the circumjacent towns; and thence the appellation, Strabo, Florus. But Livy from Capys, a general of the Samnites, who took it from the Tufcans: or, as he adds, which is nearer the truth, from Campus, or the champaign level country, confirmed by Pliny: fo that the words of Florus and Strabo are a bare al lufion, not a genuine etymon. In the Punic war, because it received Hannibal within its walls, it was reduced to a prefecture; but recovered its ancient rights in the confulate of Caefar, at the end of an hundred and fifty-two years, Paterculus. The plenty and agreeablenefs of the place made it the mistress of pleasure, Livy; fatal to Hannibal, id. Campanus, the gentilitious name, Livy; Capuanus, Greeks, Still called Capua, a city of Lavoro in Naples, on the Voltorno. E. Long. 15° 12', Lat. 41° 20′. Capuanus, or Campanus Ager, the terri tory of Capua, made tributary by the ancient Romans for the exigencies of the ftate, Suetonius. CARACATES, Tacitus; a people of Belgica, next the Tribocci, and Vangiones. Some MSS. read Caeracates, and Ceracates. CARACCA, Ptolemy; a town of the Carpetani, in the Hither Spain: Characinati, the people, Plutarch. CARACENI, or Caracini. See SAM

NITES.

CARALIS, is, Strabo, Mela; Carales, ium, Livy; among the nobleft and moft ancient towns of Sardinia, and the capital thereof. Caralitanus the epithet; as Caralitanum Promontorium, Pliny; and Caralitanus Sinus, Ptolemy. Now Cagliari, on a bay of the Mediterranean, in the fouth

of the island. E. Long. 9° 12′, Lat. 39° 7'. CARAMBIS, Strabo, Pliny; a promontory of Paphlagonia, running out a vaft way into the Euxine, and as it were dividing it into two feas; oppofite to the Criu-Metopon, on the Sarmatic, or oppofite fide, which runs to meet it.

CARANITIS, Strabo; a diftrict of Armenia Major,' weftward, towards Armenia Minor.

CARANTONUS. See CANENTELUS. CARANUS, Strabo; Carnus, Artemidorus; Carne, which laft fee. CARANUSCA, Peutinger; a town of Belgica, fituate between the Mediomatrici and Treveri; for which Cluverius reads Saranufca; which he interprets Saarburg, in Lorrain. CARATAE, Ptolemy; a people of Sogdiana, a branch of the Sacae, fituate along the river Jaxartes. CARBANIA, Mela; a small island in the Sinus Pifanus, on the coaft of Etruria.

CARBAS, Vetruvius; the fouth-west wind.

CARBIA, Antonine; a town on the

weft fide of Sardinia, the Portus
Coracodes.

CARBONARIA FOSSA, Pliny; one of
the mouths of the Po; now called
Porto di Goro, Cluverius.
CARBRUSA, Pliny; a defart island

near the Cherfonefus of Thrace. CARCAR, Jerome, Karkor, Judges; a town in the extremity of the tribe of Gad, or at the beginning of the Arabes Scenitae: at this place Gideon quelled the Midianites. CARCASO,onis, Caefar; Carcafum,Pilny; Carcaffo, and Carcafio, lower writers; a town of Gallia Narbonenfis,on the Atax. Still called Carcaffone, in Languedoc, on the Aude. E. Long. 2°5', Lat. 43° 20'. CARCATHIOCERTA, capital of Sophene, a district of Armenia Major, fituate towards the Tigris, Stra bo, Pliny.

CARCHEBON. See CARTHAGO. CARCHEMIS. See CERCUSIUM. CARCHESIA, One of the Cyclades, o

therwife called Amorgos, Stephanus. CARCHI, Polybius; a people of Me dia.

CARCINA, Mela, Ptolemy; Carcinitis,
Herodotus ; a town of Sarmatia
Europaea, above the mouth of the
Hypacaris and on a bay, called
Sinus Carcinites, Mela. Now Gol-
fo di Nigropoli, on the weft of the
Crimea,

CARCINES, Pliny; a river of the
Bruttii.

CARCINUM, Mela; a town of the

Brutti, on the Sinus Scylaceus, near the Carcines: alfo a promon tory of Magna Graecia, the longeft in Italy, Pliny. CARCOMA, Ptolemy; a town of Mau

retania

town of Caria, called Jovis Carii Delubrum, Herodotus. Homer calls the Carians, barbarians in lan

guage.

CARIA, Livy; Caris, Stephanus ; a town of the Phrygia Pacatiana, surnamed Hydrela.

CARIA, Mela, Arrian; a part of Thrace on the Euxine, the coun try round which was called Caria in Thrace. CARIATA, Strabo; a town of the Bactriana, destroyed by Alexander, and where Calisthenes was seized and laid in chains. CARIATH, Joshua xviii. a town in the tribe of Benjamin. CARIATHAIM. See KIRIATHAIM, CARIATH-ARBA. See HEBRON.

CARIATH-BAAL. SeeKIRIATH-BAAL. CARIATH-SEPHER. See DEBIR. CAILLAE, Sil. Italicus; Cerilli, Strabo; a town of the Bruttii, near the river Laus, next Lucania; which fuffered much in the Punic war; but which was ftill extant in the time of the author of an ancient Itinerary.

CARINAE, Virgil, Horace; the name of a street in Rome; fo called, becaufe at the head of the Via Sacra, Varro. CARIS, Stephanus; a name of the ifland Cos. Also a town of Phrygia, id. the fame with Caria. CARIS, or Carus, a river running through the Bituriges, in Celtic Gaul, with a north-west course, into the Ligeris; more noted in the lower age: now called the Cher. CARISIA, Pliny; a town of the Conventus Gaditanus, in the Farther Spain, on the Baetis. CARISIACUM, Antonine; a town of Belgica. Now Crefy, in Picardy; famous in later ages for the victory of Edward III. over the French. E. Long. 2°, Lat. 50° 20′. CARISSA, Ptolemy; a town of Galatia, fituate on the Halys, above Claudiopolis.

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CARISTUM, or Caryflum, Livy; town of Liguria, in the territory of the Statiellates: now extinct; unlefs its remains be the hamlet Carfo, on the road from Genoa to Dertona.

CARITH. See CRITH.

CARMANA, Ptolemy, Ammian; an inland town, and the metropolis of

Carmania; fituate northwards, near the limits of Carmania Deferta and Drangiana. Now Kerman. E. Long. 56° 30', Lat. 30°. Alfo the name of an ifland. See CARMINNA. CARMANA. See CARMINNA. CARMANIA, a country of Afia, to the east of Perfia, having Parthia to the north, Gedrofia to the eaft, to the fouth the Persian Gulf, or Sea in part, and in part the Indian; called the Carmanian Sea, Ayathemerus diftinguished into Carmania Deferta, and Carmania Propria, the former lying to the south of Parthia, and to the fouth of that, the Propria, quite to the fea, Ptolemy, Agathemerus. Its name is from the Syriac, Carma, fignifying a vine, for which that country is famous, yielding clusters three feet long, Strabo. Carmanii, or Carmani, Stephanus, the people. Now Kerman, or Carimania, a province of modern Perfia.

CARMEL, Joshua, Samuel; a town in the Wilderness of Maon, on the west of the fouth extremity of the Dead Sea, in the tribe of Judah; where Nabal had a farm, and hence called the Carmelite: the town feated on a high mountain; ten miles to the fouth of Hebron, Jerome. CARMELUS, Jofephus; a mountain in Galilee, on the Mediterranean, planted with olives and vines, Jerome. On it stood a cognominal town, formerly called Ecbatana, Pliny. Here Cambyfes, king of Perfia died; to whom the oracle foretold, Ecbatana should be fatal; which he understood of the Ecbatania in Media, Herodotus. The va riety in fettling its fituation, with respect to the fame place, is owing to its great extent. Jofephus fays, it was an hundred and twenty fta dia, or fifteen miles to the fouth of Ptolemais.

almoft over-against Lupia, in Calabria; there a town ftood, called Carminianum, the name not alto. gether loft at this day; mentioned in the Notitia Imperii, together with a procurator of the privy purfe, in Apulia and Calabria, or the Saltus Carminianenfis. Whence it appears, fays Holftenius, that the place, with its territory, was formerly the private patrimony of the emperors. CARMINNA, Ptolemy; Carmana, Stephanus; an island in the Indian Ocean; fo called from the Carmani. CARMYLESSUs, Strabo; a fmall town of Lycia, lying in a deep valley or bottom, between mount Cragus to the east, and Anticragus to the weft.

CARNE, Pliny, Stephanus ; a town of

Syria, on the borders of Phoenicia and Seleucis. Carnites, ae, the gentilitious name, Lycophron; the fame with Caranus, and Carnus. CARNI, Livy, Pliny; an Alpine people of the Tranfpadana, extending from the Alpes Carnicae to the Adriatic, bounded on the weit by the Tilaventus, on the eaft by the Formio. The country now called Carnicla.

CARNUS, untis, Livy, Ptolemy; CarBantum, Pliny; a town of Pannonia Superior, on the right or fouth fide of the Danube, at the confluence of the Morava, to the eaft of Vienna. Now the village S. Petronel, Baudrand.

CARNUTES, Livy, Caefar; Carnuti, Pliny; Carnutini, Plutarch; Carnutae, Ptolemy; a people of Gallia Celtica, extending from the Ligeris to the Sequana. Now the Chartrain.

CARNUTUM. See AUTRICUM. CAROCOTINUM, Antonine; a town

of Gallia Belgica; which by the diftances of the Itinerary,is thought to be Havre de Grace; a port-town of Normandy. E. Long. 17, Lat. 49° 30'.

CARPASIA, Strabo, Ptolemy; Carpafum, Pliny; a town of Cyprus, fituate on the north fide, built by Pygmalion, Hellanicus; with a port, Strabo,

CARPATES, de, Ptolemy; Alpes Baf tarnicat, Peutinger; a range of mountains, running out between

Poland, Hungary, and Tranfylvania; from thefe mountains, as from their ancient feat, the Carpi, of the lower age; Carpiani, Ptolemy; a Tranfiftrian people, are thought to take their name. Now called the Carpathian Mountains.

CARPATHIUM MARE, Horace, Ovid; the fea that washes the ifland Carpathus. CARPATHUS, Pliny, Strabo, Homer; an ifland on the coaft of Afia, two hundred ftadia in compafs, Strabo; an hundred in length, Scylax; its name is faid to be from its fituation on the coaft of Caria; its diftance from Rhodes to the fouth-we is an hundred ftadia. Capathi, the inhabitants, Coin. Carpathium Mare, Horace; more famous than the island. Carpathius Leporem, denotes an inconfiderate action, that proves very hurtful; hares introduced into the island multiplied fo fait as to destroy all the corn. Now called Scarpanto.

CARPELLA, Ptolemy; a promontory of Carmania, at the mouth of the Sinus Perficus.

CARPENTORACTE, Piiny; a town of the Cavares, in Gallia Narbonenfis. Now Carpentras, a city of Avignon, in Provence. E. Long. 5° 12', Lat. 44° 10'.

CARPETANI, Livy, Pliny; a people of the Hither Spain, on the Tagus, neighbours to the Arevaci: Carpetania, their country: whether the fame with the Carpefi of Livy is

doubtful.

CARPIANI, Ptolemy; Carpi, lower age; a branch of the Baltarnae, occupying the Mons Carpates; hence called Baftarnicae Alpes, which run out between Poland and Hungary. CARPIS, Ptolemy, Ammian; a town of the Lower Pannonia, on the Danube, to the north of Aquincum, and twenty-one miles from Salva, Itinerary. Chpi, Notitia; Sipi, Antonine.

CARPIS, Ptolemy; Carți, orum, Pliny; ' a town of Africa Propria, to the north east of Tunis, and eat of Carthage.

CARRA, Stephanus; a river of Mefopotamia; which, whether the fame with, or another river running into the Chabor, on which

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