CARYATI'DES (5 _syl_.), or CARYA'TES (4 _syl_.), female figures in Greek costume, used in architecture to support entablatures Ca'rya, in Arcadia, sided with the Persians when they invaded Greece, so after the battle of Thermop'ylae, the victorious Greeks destroyed the city, slew the men, and made the women slaves, Praxit'elês, to perpetuate the disgrace, employed figures of Caryan women with Persian men, for architectural columns. CAS'CA, a blunt-witted Roman, and one of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Cæsar. He is called "Honest Casca," meaning _plain-spoken._--Shakespeare, _Julius Cæsar_ (1607). CASCH'CASCH, a hideous genius, "hunch-backed, lame, and blind of one eye; with six horns on his head, and both his hands and feet hooked." The fairy Maimou'nê (3 _syl_.) summoned him to decide which was the more beautiful, "the prince Camaral'zaman or the princess Badou'ra," but he was unable to determine the knotty point.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Camaralzaman and Badoura"). CASEL'LA, a musician and friend of the poet Dantê, introduced in his _Purgatory_, ii. On arriving at purgatory, the poet sees a vessel freighted with souls come to be purged of their sins and made fit for paradise; among them he recognizes his friend Casella, whom he "woos to sing;" whereupon Casella repeats with enchanting sweetness the words of [Dantê's] second canzone. Dantê shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he wooed to sing, Met in the milder shades of purgatory. Milton, _Sonnet_, xiii. (To H. Lawes). CASEY, landlord of the tavern on "Red Hoss Mountain" in Eugene Field's poem _Casey's Table d'Hôte_. He drifted for a fortune to the undeveloped West, And he come to Eed Hoss Mountain when the little camp was new, When the money flowed like likker, an' the folks wuz brave an' true, And, havin' been a stewart on a Mississippi boat, He opened up a caffy, 'nd he run a _tabble dote_. (1889.) CAS'PAR, master of the horse to the baron of Arnheim. Mentioned in Donnerhugel's narrative.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). _Cas'par_, a man who sold himself to Za'miel the Black Huntsman. The night before the expiration of his life-lease, he bargained for a respite of three years, on condition of bringing Max into the power of the fiend. On the day appointed for the prize-shooting, Max aimed at a dove but killed Caspar, and Zamiel carried off his victim to "his own place."--Weber's opera, _Der Freischüte_ (1822). CASS (_Godfrey_), young farmer in _Silas Marner_, by George Eliot. Father of the heroine. CASSAN'DRA, daughter of Priam, gifted with the power of prophecy; but Apollo, whom she had offended, cursed her with the ban "that no one should ever believe her predictions."--Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_ (1602).