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 CAPPADOX, BcaHf diy In anmnur. Stnibo (p. 5B8) plii(«« tlu l Inks imniedulBl)' toDtli nf GnlitU, mid bordf tine on GraU Cuppidooiii, and [ho [art of Cappudocia callrd MorimeiH. Thii Inks thon must be Yiewed as niar the common boundiit; of Gilaliia, Phrygia, nad The nititu of RamUtmi in Aiie Ulnar {Ke- Korckut, &£.}, olid of Ainswurth from Angora by £iuKirijF«A to Bir (Zomfon (leog. Jswna', tdI. i.) eoDtiUD macb niiubla infomution on the tnoloKj, ud the f^fsul Ksof^ph; of CippsdocuL [Q. L.] CAPPADOX RIVER. [CAPFAnociA.] CAPRA'RIA (KaiTfo^), ■ snull iikod in tha Tfirhaniui 3«, batviesD Cornea uid the caul of Etrniia, still cillad Capraia. II U dutuit abaut SO Kto^fUcal milM from Popalaninm, tba nareat poiat of Uia momluid, nod ii ■ Tocij and elevated iiknd, fonoing a caaajiciumt object in tbii part of the TjTriienian S«b, though oolj about 5 milea long bj 2 in bnadtb. Vairo, who writes the name Ca- pniia, tella ni it vaa derived from the aimiber of wild g«U with iriiich it abounded ; whence also the Graelu called it Akoiuuh; but it tnuit not If con- foondad with the Mland of Ioilium, mw Giglio, which ii much farther Miilfa. (Plin. iii. 6. a. 12; PtoL m. 1. S T8i lIeU,ii.7i Van. a ft iL 3. §3.) Bntilina tiilU n> that it wu inhabited in hia time by a nnmber of moDka. (/tH.L435.) [E. U. B.J CAPRA'RIA. [Balearu; Fobtuhatae.] CAPEA8IA, a town of BrnttiDin, placed bj the Itineniiaa co the rad from " . latter ^ity. (ft« jIkI. pp. 105, 110; Tab.Peut.) It ia probablj the modem TVinu, on the left bank of the Crathie, abont tbe rH|aired distance from Cotma. [E- H. B,] CA'PREAE (Korp^; Capri), an island otTthe coast of Camjwiia, Ijinff immadiatelj opposite the Surmiline Pmmontory, from which it wu sepuattd by a strait only 3 miles in width. (Tac. Am. iv. 67.) Pliny tells ns it wu U miles in ciitait, which it T07 near the tmth. (Pliny, iii. 6. a. 12.) Like tbe nuontain range, which fivms the southern bovndsry of the Bay of Naples, and of which it is, in &ct, only a cmtinnation, Caprese consists wholly ti limestone, and ia girt almost all rouixl with pre- cipjlooa cli^ of rock, rimng abruptly fn>m tha ees, and in many places attaining to a great eleration. The westun portion of the island, now called Avaia Capri (a name probably derived from the Gmek oi Mm Katpiat), is much the most elevated, rising to a height of 1,600 feat above the sea. The (•ttem end also forma an abrupt hill, with jmcifa- tooa clifb towards tiia mjuniand ; hnt between the two IB s depression, or saddle, of moderate height, wheiB the modem town of Capri dor stands. The oolj landing-places are two little covea on either side of this. Of itn history of Capnae very little pied at a very early period byapei^ecslledTsleboae, ■PFamCly the same whom we Grid mentioned as a ptntical race inhahitmg the islands of the Echinadu, off the coast of Acamania. (Scbol. ad Apoll. Bhod. i. 747.) ^rgil apeaks of them as mbject to ■ king, named Teloo, whence Silins Italicns calls Caprese " antiqni ssiosa Tekoia insula." (Vii^. Atu. viL 73S ; Sil. Ital. viii. S43 ; Stat. SHv. iii. 5 ; Tac. Aim. ir. 67.) In historical times we find that CAPRUa 509 ilmbitantH appiar to have adopted and re- lainea u a late period the Greek costoms of that people. But Augustas having taken a fancv to Caprcae, in consequence of a &vonrab1o omen which he met with on landing there, took poesession of it as part of the imperial domniu, giving the Ken- polltans in eichange thr for more ffpolThy island nf Aenaria. (SneC. ^ug.S!; Dion Caas.lii.43.) He appears to have visited it repfatedly, and spent four days then shortly before his death. (Soet. .li^. 93.) T Tibeiic e the chief celebrity to Capreae, having, in a. 1 tablishad hia ruidecice petmanently on the island, where ha spent the last ten years of his life. Ac- cording o Tacitna, it was not -m much the mildi>esB of the climate and the beauty of the prospect that led him to take up hia abode here, as the stchided and inaccessible character of the. spot, which se- cured him alike from danger and fnnn observation- It was here accordingly that he gave hhnself np to theunrcetraiiied practiu of the grosseet debaucheries, which have rendei«d hia name scarcely lea infa~ mons than hia cmeltiee. (Tac. Attn, iv. 67, ti. 1 ; Soet. rtt. 40, 43: Dion Case. IviiL 6; Jot. Sit i. S3.) He erected not Imb than twelve villas in dif- feient puts of the island, the remaina of several of which are still visible. The moat considerable appears tA have been aitnated oa the summit of the cliff being the Sorrentine Pmocntory, which, from ili strong poHtioD, is evidently that dedgnated by Phny (iiL 6. a. 12)astha " An Tibarii." Ititsnppoeed aba to be this one that was called, as we learn from Soetonins (Tfl. 65), the " Villa Jems.' Near it are tha remaina of a pharos or light-honse, allnded to both by Suetonius and Statins, which mnst have serred to guide shipe through the strait between this headland and the Surrenline Prcanontoiy. (SucL rt6.74; SlatSiic. iii. 5.10a) Strabo lells ns tiiat there were (brmorly two small n his ti mained. It iu all probability oceupicd the tt as ths modem town of Capri. (Strab. t. p. 248.) Ti. ^ Tanmbnbie, mentioned by Statins . ia9),ai id rocks that crown the ishuid of Capri 1 it is said that two of these still beai the names of rorojroiHfe and Joro piccolo. From its rocky character and calcareous sml Capri ii far inferior in fertility to the opptoita island of Itchia ; the epithet of " ditee Capreae," given it in the same pasaaga by Statiue, coold be deserved only on account of the imperial splendonr hivisbed on Uie villaa of Tiberins. EicavationB in modem times have brought to light other relics rf anliqui^. Xhtne, aa well as the pre- sent state of ths island, are fnlly dMcribed by Us- diaia. (jAtttr^ tuff /sola S Cimi Dresden, 17fl4.) TE. H. B.] CAPRIA LAKE. [AspBimus.] CAPRUS. (Kdvpot: lA^bddha), the port and island of Stageima to the SW. of the Strymonio Golf. (Stiab. vil. p. 331; comp. Leake, Norlhem Greece, vol iiL p. 166.) [E. B. J.] CAPRUS. l.(Kiir(Mr,Strab.ivi.p.738; Polyb. V, 5 1 ; Ptol. vi, 1. § 7), a river of Assyria which flowed into the Hgris, not many miles below Nineveh. Its modeni name ia the Leuer Zah. It is probable that the name of this, and that of the Greater Zib, tha Lycus, ware imported into Assyria by the Greeka from Phiygia, in which were two rivers of the aamo names in cloaa pro]u)quity the one to tha other. [V.]