Carcīnus, a tragic poet of Agrigentum, in the age of Philip of Macedon. He wrote on the rape of Proserpine. Diodorus, bk. 5.——Another of Athens.——Another of Naupactum.——A man of Rhegium, who exposed his son Agathocles on account of some uncommon dreams during his wife’s pregnancy. Agathocles was preserved. Diodorus, bk. 19.——An Athenian general, who laid waste Peloponnesus in the time of Pericles. Diodorus, bk. 12.
Carcĭnus, a constellation, the same as the Cancer. Lucan, bk. 9, li. 536.
Cardaces, a people of Asia Minor. Strabo, bk. 15.
Cardămy̆le, a town of Argos.
Cardia, a town in the Thracian Chersonesus. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 11.
Cardŭchi, a warlike nation of Media, along the borders of the Tigris. Diodorus, bk. 14.
Cāres, a nation which inhabited Caria, and thought themselves the original possessors of that country. They became so powerful that their country was not sufficiently extensive to contain them all, upon which they seized the neighbouring islands of the Ægean sea. These islands were conquered by Minos king of Crete. Nileus son of Codrus invaded their country, and slaughtered many of the inhabitants. In this calamity, the Carians, surrounded on every side by enemies, fortified themselves in the mountainous parts of the country, and, soon after, made themselves terrible by sea. They were anciently called Leleges. Herodotus, bk. 1, chs. 146 & 171.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 40.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Curtius, bk. 6, ch. 3.—Justin, bk. 13, ch. 4.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 725.
Caresa, an island of the Ægean sea, opposite Attica.
Caressus, a river of Troas.
Carfinia, an immodest woman, mentioned Juvenal, satire 2, li. 69.