Cāria, now Aidinelli, a country of Asia Minor, whose boundaries have been different in different ages. Generally speaking, it was at the south of Iona, at the east and north of the Icarian sea, and at the west of Phrygia Major, and Lycia. It has been called Phœnicia, because a Phœnician colony first settled there; and afterwards it received the name of Caria, from Car, a king who first invented the auguries of birds. The chief town was called Halicarnassus, where Jupiter was the chief deity. See: [Cares].——A poet of Thrace. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 2.
Carias, a town of Peloponnesus.——A general. See: [Laches].
Cariate, a town of Bactriana, where Alexander imprisoned Callisthenes.
Carilla, a town of the Piceni, destroyed by Annibal for its great attachment to Rome. Silius Italicus, bk. 8.
Carīna, a virgin of Caria, &c. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Carinæ, certain edifices at Rome, built in the manner of ships, which were in the temple of Tellus. Some suppose that it was a street in which Pompey’s house was built. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 361.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 7.
Carīne, a town near the Caicus in Asia Minor. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 42.
Carīnus Marcus Aurelius, a Roman who attempted to succeed his father Carus as emperor. He was famous for his debaucheries and cruelties. Diocletian defeated him in Dalmatia, and he was killed by a soldier whose wife he had debauched, A.D. 268.
Carisiăcum, a town of ancient Gaul, now Cressy in Picardy.
Carissanum, a place of Italy near which Milo was killed. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 56.