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 6!4 CABPATUIUU. faint, bat Ploknij iuaulates the ran;^, tsking no notice of its prDlongitxin to tlie SB. throngh Itecia (the E. CarpatMan Motmlaini), »nd enpraisljr se- paraliog it, on the W^ from the Sumutici M. The earlier writ*™ accnratelj describe the range is a continuation of the Uercjnia Silvo, and u running through Dada, bnt the; do not call it bj anj ape- ctfic name (Caes. B. G. vL 25; Smb. tii. p. 29S; Piin.iv. l3.a.SS). In the Peatinnerian Table it ia called Alpea Baatamicw. It contains Che aoDrces of the great riveia floviiic through Dacia^ Bouthvard^ into the Danube. (Ukert, vol. iiL pt. 3. pp. 12S, 355, 80a.) [P. S.] CABPA'THIUM MARE. [Carpathub.] CA'RPATHUS (Kipirafloi; Carpalhum, Plin. i In Horn. R. ii. 676, KpirsSos: EA. KapiriUui : Skarpmto'), an island in the sea between Crete and Kliodo, which "aa named after it the Carfathian tea. (KofinlSior Tiayoi, Smb. i. p. 4tJS ; Car- ptilhiu.n mare. Hot. Carm. i. 35. 8.) Carpalbus a dBBCrilied I; the ancient aDlhoritiea aa 100 ■tnJia m length (ScyUi, p. 56), and 200 stadia u circuit (Stnb. p. 489); bot accordmg to Bondel. munte, Ike old Italian tUTeller, it is 70 llaliar milea in circuinfeienee. The island cocusts for the most part of lofty and bar and hollows; and the coast la geneiall; sleep and the cenuv of the island, and ii called Lattot, ap- pears ta be 4000 feet in heii;ht Cupathns is said to hare been subject to Minos and to have been afterwanli coloniicd hj Arjti - ■ (Diod. T. 54.) It ■ Doric nntry. !roj«i mentioned along with Nisjrus, iHom. II iL 676); but at a Uter period it nndcr the rule of the lUwdiiuu. It would The onlj ni is Nisjrus {Slavfot). Ptolemy (v. 2. § 33) mentions another town, called Poaei- dium {Yioatllwr). The name of a third, Arcesin( i^kpKtsiyil), is onlj preeerred in an inscriptiou con- taining the tribute of the Athenian alliee. Thi site of Arresine has been determined by Rocs, It ii now wWoi Arkaua, and is situated upon a pro- ntaixtoiy m the middle of the wnt coast of thi ■outiiem part of the island. Poeeidium wai ulu. lOH called Pigadin oi Potia. a rock. SikoMlron, off the wealcm emst, and of town upw the island Saria, which is ten miles iJ circuit, and is separated by a narravt strait from tit nunliem extremity of Carpathui. The muu i: Sorfa, which are called raldlia, maj possihij b those of Nisjrus. (Comp. the nanifs Znplo, Ni Ptolemy (i c.) mentions two promontories, on called ThoanMium (eoirrum), probably the south em extremity of the island, Uie modera Alirotcri, and the other EphiaKium CE^wUtid.'). which Koss conjectures to be a promontoiy S. of Poeeidium, of which the modem name Aphiarlit in perhaps a cor- ruptiou. The ucomponjiuj; map of Carpsthna is CABPEKTOBACTB. taken fmm Boas, who is the «ily modem tnnDcr that baa given an account of the island. (Comp. Herod, iii. 45; DivnTa. Per. 500; Plin. iv. 12. a. S3, V. 3I.S.36; Pomp. UeLii.7;Steph. B. (. f. ; Bceo, Seiien aa/dea Griech. /lUeJn, Tol. iiu p. 50.) CARPE'IA. [CsRTFu.] CA'RPELLA. [Carmania.] CABPKNTORACTl': (Carpaitrat). ■ town ot Osllia Nsrbonensis, mentioned only hy Pliny (iiL 4), who calls it Carpentoncte Meminomm; theMemini would therefore be between the Cavsres and Vul- gienta. Cnrpnttnu is in the department of ron- ctuw. NE, nf Arignon. There is a Roman triumphal arvb at Carjienlrai, situated in the bigheel part of the town. Iwme time hack it was built ap in the kitchens of the palace of Bichy, but it is said that occasion this arch was erected. Antiquities found at Corpewfrcu an raenticoed by Caylus (voL tlIL p. 252, pi. 72), Ptolemy (ii. 10) mentions tha Unnini, and a place c^led Forum Neronis. The Memini are other- wise unknown. It seems nnlikely that these ob- scure people — who, if they were irally a distinct people, muat have had a veiy small twritory — should have bad two towns; and it is not easy to eiplam why Ptolemy shoold not mentii racte. The probable cmcluaion seem Csrpeotoncte and Forom Neronis ar plats. D'Anville, however, supposes Ft to bo Farcalquier, relying on a email rt name; and Walckenaer (Geoj. 4c. vrf, ii. p. 219) thinks that " the conjecture which lends to 6i Forum Neronis at Monva is preferable to that which files it at ForcaigwrJ' Caipentoracte kept its nama to the Bixtb centtuy of our aers, which ia an argu- ment against it being identical with Forum Neronis. At Vmatqae, a vUUgb about two leagues south oC