Caryātæ, a people of Arcadia.
Carystius Antigonus, an historian, &c. B.C. 248.
Carystus, a maritime town on the south of Eubœa, still in existence, famous for its marble. Statius, bk. 2, Sylvæ, poem 2, li. 93.—Martial, bk. 9, ltr. 76.
Caryum, a place of Laconia, where Aristomenes preserved some virgins, &c. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 16.
Casca, one of Cæsar’s assassins, who gave him the first blow. Plutarch, Cæsar.
Cascellius Aulus, a lawyer of great merit in the Augustan age. Horace, Art of Poetry, li. 371.
Casilīnum, a town of Campania. When it was besieged by Hannibal, a mouse sold for 200 denarii. The place was defended by 540 or 570 natives of Præneste, who, when half their number had perished either by war or famine, surrendered to the conqueror. Livy, bk. 23, ch. 19.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Cicero, De Inventione, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.
Casīna and Casīnum, a town of Campania. Silius Italicus, bk. 4, li. 227.
Casius, a mountain near the Euphrates.——Another at the east of Pelusium, where Pompey’s tomb was raised by Adrian. Jupiter, surnamed Casius, had a temple there. Lucan, bk. 8, li. 858.——Another in Syria, from whose top the sun can be seen rising, though it be still the darkness of night at the bottom of the mountain. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 22.—Mela, bks. 1 & 3.
Casmenæ, a town built by the Syracusans in Sicily. Thucydides, bk. 6, ch. 5.