Cæne, a small island in the Sicilian sea.——A town on the coast of Laconia, whence Jupiter is called Cænius. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 5.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 136.
Cæneus, one of the Argonauts. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9.——A Trojan killed by Turnus. Virgil.
Cænides, a patronymic of Eetion, as descended from Cæneus. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 92.
Cænīna, a town of Latium near Rome. The inhabitants, called Cæninenses, made war against the Romans when their virgins had been stolen away. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 135.—Propertius, bk. 4, poem 11, li. 9.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 9.
Cænis, a promontory of Italy, opposite to Pelorus in Sicily, a distance of about one mile and a half.
Cænis, a Thessalian woman, daughter of Elatus, who, being forcibly ravished by Neptune, obtained from the god the power to change her sex, and to become invulnerable. She also changed her name, and was called Cæneus. In the wars of the Lapithæ against the Centaurs, she offended Jupiter, and was overwhelmed with a huge pile of wood, and changed into a bird. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, lis. 172 & 479.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 448, says that she returned again to her pristine form.
Quintus Servilius Cæpio, a Roman consul, A.U.C. 648, in the Cimbrian war. He plundered a temple at Tolossa, for which he was punished by divine vengeance, &c. Justin, bk. 32, ch. 3.—Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 12.——A questor who opposed Saturninus. Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Cæratus, a town of Crete. Strabo.——A river.
Cære, Cæres, anciently Agylla, now Cerveteri, a city of Etruria, once the capital of the whole country. It was in being in the age of Strabo. When Æneas came to Italy, Mezentius was king over the inhabitants, called Cæretes or Cærites; but they banished their prince, and assisted the Trojans. The people of Cære received with all possible hospitality the Romans who fled with the fire of Vesta, when the city was besieged by the Gauls, and for this humanity they were made citizens of Rome, but without the privilege of voting; whence Cærites tabulæ was applied to those who had no suffrage, and Cærites cera appropriated as a mark of contempt. Virgil, Æneid, bks. 8 & 10.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 2.—Strabo, bk. 5.
Cæresi, a people of Germany. Cæsar.