Castrum Novum, a place on the coast of Etruria. Livy, bk. 36, ch. 3.——Truentinum, a town of Picenum. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 8, ltr. 12.——Inui, a town on the shores of the Tyrrhene sea. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 775.
Castŭlo, a town of Spain, where Annibal married one of the natives. Plutarch, Sertorius.—Livy, bk. 24, ch. 41.—Silius Italicus, bk. 3, lis. 99 & 391.
Catabathmos, a great declivity near Cyrene fixed by Sallust as the boundary of Africa. Sallust, Jugurthine War, chs. 17 & 19.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 5.
Catadūpa, the name of the large cataracts of the Nile, whose immense noise stuns the ears of travellers for a short space of time, and totally deprives the neighbouring inhabitants of the power of hearing. Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, ch. 5.
Catagogia, festivals in honour of Venus, celebrated by the people of Eryx. See: [Anagogia].
Catamenteles, a king of the Sequani, in alliance with Rome, &c. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 1, ch. 3.
Catăna, a town of Sicily at the foot of mount Ætna, founded by a colony from Chalcis, 753 years before the christian era. Ceres had there a temple, in which none but women were permitted to appear. It was large and opulent, and it is rendered remarkable for the dreadful overthrows to which it has been subjected from its vicinity to Ætna, which has discharged, in some of its eruptions, a stream of lava four miles broad and 50 feet deep, advancing at the rate of seven miles in a day. Catana contains now about 30,000 inhabitants. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 4, ch. 53; bk. 5, ch. 84.—Diodorus, bks. 11 & 14.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Thucydides, bk. 6, ch. 3.
Cataonia, a country above Cilicia, near Cappadocia. Cornelius Nepos, Datames, ch. 4.
Cataracta, a city of the Samnites.
Cataractes, a river of Pamphylia, now Dodensoui.