Caprăria, now Cabrera, a mountainous island on the coast of Spain, famous for its goats. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 6.
Căpreæ, now Capri, an island on the coast of Campania, abounding in quails, and famous for the residence and debaucheries of the emperor Tiberius, during the seven last years of his life. The island, in which now several medals are dug up expressive of the licentious morals of the emperor, is about 40 miles in circumference, and surrounded by steep rocks. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 709.—Suetonius, Tiberius.—Statius, Sylvæ, bk. 3, li. 5.
Capræa Palus, a place near Rome where Romulus disappeared. Plutarch, Romulus.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 491.
Capricornus, a sign of the zodiac, in which appear 28 stars in the form of a goat, supposed by the ancients to be the goat Amalthæa, which fed Jupiter with her milk. Some maintain that it is Pan, who changed himself into a goat when frightened at the approach of Typhon. When the sun enters this sign it is the winter solstice, or the longest night in the year. Marcus Manilius, bks. 2 & 4.—Horace, bk. 2, ode 17, li. 19.—Hyginus, fable 196; Poetica Astronomica, bk. 2, ch. 28.
Caprificiālis, a day sacred to Vulcan, on which the Athenians offered him money. Pliny, bk. 11, ch. 15.
Caprīma, a town of Caria.
Caprĭpĕdes, a surname of Pan, the Fauni and the Satyrs, from their having goats’ feet.
Caprias, a great informer in Horace’s age. Horace, bk. 1, satire 4, li. 66.
Caprotīna, a festival celebrated at Rome in July in honour of Juno, at which women only officiated. See: [Philotis]. Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 5.
Caprus, a harbour near mount Athos.