Canutius Tiberinus, a tribune of the people, who, like Cicero, furiously attacked Antony, when declared an enemy to the state. His satire cost him his life. Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 64.——A Roman actor. Plutarch, Brutus.
Căpăneus, a noble Argive, son of Hipponous and Astinome, and husband to Evadne. He was so impious, that when he went to the Theban war, he declared that he would take Thebes even in spite of Jupiter. Such contempt provoked the god, who struck him dead with a thunderbolt. His body was burnt separately from the others, and his wife threw herself on the burning pile to mingle her ashes with his. It is said that Æsculapius restored him to life. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 404.—Statius, Thebiad, bk. 3, &c.—Hyginus, fables 68 & 70.—Euripides, Phœnician Women & Suppliants.—Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes.
Capella, an elegiac poet in the age of Julius Cæsar. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 4, poem 16, li. 36.——Martianus, a Carthaginian, A.D. 490, who wrote a poem on the marriage of Mercury and philology, and in praise of the liberal arts. The best edition is that of Walthardus, 8vo, Bernæ, 1763.——A gladiator. Juvenal, satire 4, li. 155.
Capēna, a gate of Rome. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 5, li. 192.
Capēnas, a small river of Italy. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 13, li. 85.
Capēni, a people of Etruria, in whose territory Feronia had a grove and a temple. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 697.—Livy, bks. 5, 22, &c.
Caper, a river of Asia Minor.
Capētus, a king of Alba, who reigned 26 years. Dionysius of Halicarnassus.——A suitor of Hippodamia. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 21.
Caphāreus, a lofty mountain and promontory of Eubœa, where Nauplius king of the country, to revenge the death of his son Palamedes, slain by Ulysses, set a burning torch in the darkness of night, which caused the Greeks to be shipwrecked on the coast. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 11, li. 260.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 481.—Propertius, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 115.
Caphyæ, a town of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 23.