Caulonia, or Caulon, a town of Italy near the country of the Brutii, founded by a colony of Achæans, and destroyed in the wars between Pyrrhus and the Romans. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 3.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 553.
Caunius, a man raised to affluence from poverty by Artaxerxes. Plutarch, Artaxerxes.
Caunus, a son of Miletus and Cyane. He was passionately fond of, or, according to others, he was tenderly beloved by, his sister Byblis, and to avoid an incestuous commerce, he retired to Caria, where he built a city called by his own name. See: [Byblis]. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, fable 11.——A city of Caria, opposite Rhodes, where Protogenes was born. The climate was considered as unwholesome, especially in summer, so that Cicero mentions the cry of a person who sold Caunian figs, which were very famous (qui Cauneas clamitabat), at Brundusium, as a bad omen (cave ne eas) against Crassus going to attack the Parthians. Cicero, de Divinatione, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 14.—Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 176.
Cauros, an island with a small town formerly called Andros, in the Ægean sea. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.
Caurus, a wind blowing from the west. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 3, li. 356.
Caus, a village of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 25.
Caȳci, or Chauci, a nation of Germany, now the people of Friesland and Groningen. Lucan, bk. 1, li. 463.
Caȳcus, a river of Mysia. See: [Caicus].
Cayster, or Caystrus, now Kitcheck-Meinder, a rapid river of Asia, rising in Lydia, and, after a meandering course, falling into the Ægean sea near Ephesus. According to the poets, the banks and neighbourhood of this river were generally frequented by swans. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 253; bk. 5, li. 386.—Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 54.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 461.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 384.
Cea, or Ceos, an island near Eubœa, called also Co. See: [Co].