Cabalii, a people of Asia Minor. Herodotus.
Caballīnus, a clear fountain on mount Helicon, sacred to the muses, and called also Hippocrene, as raised from the ground by the foot of Pegasus. Persius.
Caballīnum, a town of the Ædui, now Chalons, on the Saone. Cæsar, Gallic War, ch. 42.
Caballio, a town of Gaul.
Cabarnos, a deity worshipped at Paros. His priests were called Cabarni.
Cabassus, a town of Cappadocia.——A village near Tarsus.
Cabīra, a wife of Vulcan, by whom she had three sons.——A town of Paphlagonia.
Cabīri, certain deities held in the greatest veneration at Thebes, Lemnos, Macedonia, and Phrygia, but more particularly in the islands of Samothrace and Imbros. The number of these deities is uncertain. Some say there were only two, Jupiter and Bacchus; others mention three, and some four, Aschieros, Achiochersa, Achiochersus, and Camillus. It is unknown where their worship was first established; yet Phœnicia seems to be the place according to the authority of Sanchoniathon, and from thence it was introduced into Greece by the Pelasgi. The festivals or mysteries of the Cabiri were celebrated with the greatest solemnity at Samothrace, where all the ancient heroes and princes were generally initiated, as their power seemed to be great in protecting persons from shipwreck and storms. The obscenities which prevailed in the celebration have obliged the authors of every country to pass over them in silence, and say that it was unlawful to reveal them. These deities are often confounded with the Corybantes, Anaces, Dioscuri, &c., and, according to Herodotus, Vulcan was their father. This author mentions the sacrilege which Cambyses committed in entering their temple, and turning to ridicule their sacred mysteries. They were supposed to preside over metals. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 51.—Strabo, bk. 10, &c.—Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 22, &c.—Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 1.
Cabiria, a surname of Ceres.——The festivals of the Cabiri. See: [Cabiri].
Cabūra, a fountain of Mesopotamia, where Juno bathed. Pliny, bk. 31, ch. 3.