CAPREA, an island on the coast of Campania, about four miles in length from east to west, and about one in breadth. It stands opposite to the promontory of _Surrentum_, and has the bay of Naples in view. It was the residence of Tiberius for several years. CAPUA, now _Capoa_, a city in the kingdom of Naples; the seat of pleasure, and the ruin of Hannibal. CARMEL, a mountain in Galilee, on the Mediterranean. CARSULÆ, a town of Umbria, about twenty miles from Mevania; now in ruins. CARTHAGO, once the most famous city of Africa, and the rival of Rome; supposed by some to have been built by queen Dido, seventy years after the foundation of Rome; but Justin will have it before Rome. It was the capital of what is now the kingdom of _Tunis_. CARTHAGO NOVA, a town of _Hispania Tarraconensis_, or the Hither Spain; now _Carthagena_. CASPIAN SEA, a vast lake between Persia, Great Tartary, Muscovy and Georgia, said to be six hundred miles long, and near as broad. CASSIOPE, a town in the island of Corcyra (now _Corfou_), called at present _St. Maria di Cassopo_. CATTI, a people of Germany, who inhabited part of the country now called _Hesse_, from the mountains of _Hartz_, to the Weser and the Rhine. CAUCI. See CHAUCI. CELENDRIS, a place on the coast of Cilicia, near the confines of Pamphylia. CENCHRIÆ, a port of Corinth, situate about ten miles towards the east; now _Kenkri_. CENCHRIS, a river running through the Ortygian Grove. CEREINA, an island in the Mediterranean, to the north of the Syrtis Minor in Africa; now called _Kerkeni_. CHALCEDON, a city of Bithynia, situate at the mouth of the Euxine, over-against Byzantium. It was called the _City of the Blind_. See Annals, xii. s. 63. CHAUCI, a people of Germany, inhabiting what we now call _East Friesland_, _Bremen_, and _Lunenburg_. See Manners of the Germans, s. 35. CHERUSCANS, a great and warlike people of Ancient Germany, to the north of the _Catti_, between the _Elbe_ and the _Weser_. CIBYRA, formerly a town of Phrygia, near the banks of the Mæander, but now destroyed. CILICIA, an extensive country in the Hither Asia, bounded by Mount Taurus to the north, by the Mediterranean to the south, by Syria to the east, and by Pamphylia to the west. It was one of the provinces reserved for the management of the emperor. CINITHIANS, a people of Africa. CIRRHA, a town of Phocis, near Delphi, sacred to Apollo. CIRRHUS, a town of Syria, in the district of Commagene, and not far from Antioch. CIRTA, formerly the capital of Numidia, and the residence of the king. It is now called _Constantina_, in the kingdom of Algiers. CLITÆ, a people of Cilicia, near Mount Taurus. CLUNIA, a city in the Hither Spain. COLCHOS, a country of Asia, on the east of the Euxine, famous for the fable of the Golden Fleece, the Argonautic Expedition, and the Fair Enchantress, Medea. COLOPHON, a city of Ionia, in the Hither Asia. One of the places that claimed the birth of Homer; now destroyed.