Capsa, a town of Libya, surrounded by vast deserts full of snakes. Florus, bk. 3, ch. 1.—Sallust, Jugurthine War.
Capsăge, a town of Syria. Curtius, bk. 10.
Căpua, the chief city of Campania in Italy, supposed to have been founded by Capys, the father, or rather the companion, of Anchises. This city was very ancient, and so opulent that it even rivalled Rome, and was called altera Roma. The soldiers of Annibal, after the battle of Cannæ, were enervated by the pleasures and luxuries which powerfully prevailed in this voluptuous city and under a soft climate. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 145.—Livy, bks. 4, 7, 8, &c.—Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 7; bk. 2, ch. 44.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 16.—Cicero, Philippics, bk. 12, ch. 3.—Plutarch, Life of Hannibal.
Capys, a Trojan, who came with Æneas into Italy, and founded Capua. He was one of those who, against the advice of Thymœtes, wished to destroy the wooden horse, which proved the destruction of Troy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 145.——A son of Assaracus by a daughter of the Simois. He was father of Anchises by Themis. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 33.
Capys Sylvius, a king of Alba, who reigned 28 years. Dionysius of Halicarnassus.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 768.
Car, a son of Phoroneus king of Megara. Pausanias, bk. 1, chs. 39 & 40.——A son of Manes, who married Callirhoe daughter of the Mæander. Caria received its name from him. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 171.
Carabactra, a place in India.
Carabis, a town of Spain.
Carăcalla. See: [Antonius].
Caracates, a people of Germany.