6 CAP 
To yield, or furrender up, on certain ftipulations.—I (lilt 
puriued, and about two o’clock this afternoon file thought 
fit to capitulate. Spectator. 
CAPITULA'TION, J. Stipulation; terms; condi¬ 
tions. 
In military affairs, it denotes a treaty made between the 
inhabitants or garifon of a place belieged, and the befieg- 
ers, for the delivering up the place on certain conditions. 
The molt honourable and ordinary terms of capitulation 
are, to march out at the breach with arms and baggage, 
drums beating, colours flying, a match lighted at both 
ends, and fome pieces of cannon, waggons and convoys for 
their baggage, and for their fick and wounded. 
CAPITULA'TION, f. in the Germah polity, a legif- 
Jative contract between the emperor and the debtors ; for 
particulars of which, fee the article Germany. 
CAPI'TUI.UM, f. in the ancient military art, was. a 
tranfverfe beam, wherein were holes through which palled 
the cords whereby the arms of the baliftae, catapult®, and 
fcorpions, were played or worked. See Artillery. 
CAPl'TULUM,./. In ecclefiaftical writers, denoted 
part of a chapter of the bible read and explained ; in which 
fenfe they laid, ire ad capitulum, to go to fuch a ledlure. 
Afterwards, the place or apartment where fuch theologi¬ 
cal exercifes were performed, was called doinus ccpituli. 
CAPI'VI, or CaPi'vus, f. [Indian.] A tree of Brafil, 
which affords the valuable drug well known by the name 
of balfam of capivi, or copaiv.a. It is the Copaifera of 
Tinnaeus, which fee. 
CAP'NIAS, f. [xa7rn«{, from xa7ro;, fmoke.] A jafper 
flone, of a fmoky colour. 
CAP'NICQN, f. In antiquity, chimney money or a. tax 
which the Roman emperors levied for fmoke > .and which, 
of confequenqe, was due from all, even the poorefi, who 
kept a fire. This was firft invented by Nicephorus. 
C APNIS'TON, f. [r.ccnrpirox, from xasruo;, fmoke.] A 
preparation made of fpices and oil, by kindling the fpices 
and fuffumigating the oil. 
CAPNOPDES,Capnor'ckis, andCAP'nos. See F u- 
Ma'ria. 
C AP'-NOMAHCY, f, [of «««•«©'» fmoke, and p-uvreia., 
divination.] A divining or foothfaying by fmoke, arifing 
from an altar where ineenfe and-poppy feeds are burnt : 
the rule was,.w hen the fmoke was thin and light, and rofe 
ftraight up, it was a good omen ; when the contrary, an 
ill omen- 
CA'PQ D’ TS'TSIA, a fea-port town of Iftria, belong¬ 
ing to the flute of Venice, the fee of a bifiiop, fuffragan 
of Udina,. fi-tuated in the-gulf of Triefie, in an unhealthy 
diffribt, near fait marfiies: feven miles fouth of Triefie. 
Lat. 45. 47. N. Ion. 31. 35. E. Ferro. 
CAPOLl'TA, a river of North America, in the province 
of Guaxaca, which runs into the. Pacific Ocean:, eighteen 
miles north-eafi of' Tangolotargo. 
C A'PON, J. [.from capio, to takeaway,. quia tejliculi ejas 
Pint capti.'] A cock chick, caftrated as foon as left by the 
dam, or as fcon as he begins to crow. They are of ufe 
either to lead chicken, ducklings, pheafants, &c. and de¬ 
fend them from the kites and buzzards ; or to feed for the 
aable, being reckoned more delicate than either a cock or 
a hen. 
CAPONIE'RE, or Caponnie're, f. in fortification, a 
paffage made from one work to another, of ten or twelve 
feet wide, and about five feet deep, covered on each fide 
by a parapet, terminating in a glacis or flope. Sometimes- 
it is covered with.planks and earth. 
CAPORA'Ll (Caefar), a native of Peru fa, and gover¬ 
nor of Atri,.in the kingdom of Naples, died at Caftiglione 
near Perufa, in 1601. His vivacity, good humour, and 
manner of turning every thing into pleafantry, occalioned 
his company to be much fought after. He- has acquired 
cpnfiderable reputation by', fome burlefque poems printed 
30 1656, in iamo. He likewife wrote fome comedies. 
CAPO'T, f. [Fr ] Is when one party wins all the tricks 
cards at the game of picq-uet*. 
CAP 
To CAPO-'T, v. e. When one party has won all the- 
tricks of cards at picquet, he is (aid to have capotled his 
antagonifi. 
CAPOU'L, one of the finaller Philippine Ifiandj, a lit¬ 
tle to tiie fouth of Lucon. 
CAPOU'CH, f. \_capvce , Fr.] A monk’s licod. 
CAPPADO'CI A,..an ancient kingdom of A,fiu, compre., 
bending all that country which lies between mountTaurus 
and the Euxiiie Sea. It was divided by the Peril a ns into 
two fatrapies or governments; by the Macedonians into 
two kingdoms, the one called Cappadocia ad Taurum; the 
other Cappadocia ad Pontum, and commonly Ponius ; for an 
account of which fee the article Pont.us. 
CAPPADO'CIA MAG'NA, or Cappadocia, pro¬ 
perly fo called,, lies between the thirty-eighth and foity- 
firft degrees of north latitude. It was bounded by Pon- 
tus on the north, Lyc.aonia and part of Armenia Major on 
the fouth, Galatia on the vefi, and by the Euphrates and 
part of Armenia Minor on the eafi. Thefirft king of Cap¬ 
padocia-was Pharnaces, preferred to the crown by Cyrus, 
king of Perfia, who gave him his fifter Atoffa in marriage. 
This is all we find recorded of him, except that he was 
killed in a war with the Hyrcanians. After him fucceedgd 
eight kings, of whom we know nothing, but that they, 
continued faithful to the Perfian intereft. In the time of 
Alexander the Great, Cappadocia was governed by Ap- 
arathes II. w ho, notwithfianding conquefis and fame of the 
Macedonian monarch, continued unfhaken in his fidelity 
to the Perfians. Alexander was prevented by death from 
invading his dominions; but Perdiccas, marchingagainff 
him with a powerful army, difper.fed his- forces ; and, hav¬ 
ing taken Ariarathes prifoner, crucified him, with.,all thufe- 
of the royal blood whom he could get into his power. 
Diodorus fays, lie was killed in tire battle. He reigned 
eighty two years. His fan Ariarathes III. having efcaped 
the general, daughter of the royal family, fled into Anne-, 
nia, till the civil difientions which arofe among the Mace¬ 
donians gave him an opportunity of recovering his paler- 
nal kingdom. Amyntas, at. that time governor of Cappa¬ 
docia, oppofed him; but, being defeated in a pitched bat¬ 
tle, the Macedonians were obliged to abandon all the firon-g 
holds. Ariarathes now enjoyed a long and peaceable reign, 
and left his kingdom to his fon Ariararunes II. He applied 
himfelf more to the arts of peace than.war, in confequencc 
of which Cappadocia fiourifhed.greatly during his reign. 
He was fiicceeded by his fon Ariarathes IV. who was a 
very warlike prince, and, having overcome Arfaces, foun¬ 
der of the Parthian monarchy, confiderably, enlarged his 
own dominions. He was fiicceeded by Ariarathes V. who, 
marrying the daughter of Antioehus theGreat, entered into 
an alliance-with that prince againft the Romans; but, An- 
tioch.us being defeated,the king of Cappadocia was obliged 
to file for peace, which he obtained, after having paid 2po 
talents, by way of fine, for taking up arms again!! Rome. 
He afterwards affified the republic with men and money 
againfi Perfeus, kingof Macedon, on which account he was. 
by the fenate honoured by the title of the friend and ally 
of the Roman people. He left the kingdom in a very- 
flourifiiing condition to his fon Mithridates,. who on his 
acceftron took the name of Ariarathes VI. 
This prince (furnamed Pkilopater, from the filial refpefl 
he fiiowed his father) renewed the alliance witli Rome. 
He preferred the fenate with a golden crown ; and offered 
his fervices wherever they thought proper to employ him. 
The fenate in return.fent him a ftafij and chair of ivory ; 
which.were prefents ufually bellowed on thofe only whom 
they looked upon as attached to their interefi. Not long_ 
before this, Demetrius Soter, king of Syria, had offered 
Ariarathes his fifter in marriage, the widow of Perfeus, 
king of Macedon: but this offer the king of Cappadocia, 
was obliged to decline, for fear of offending the Romans. 
Demetrius, incenfed at the flight put upon his fifter, fet 
- up a pretender to the throne, Orophernes, a natural fon 
of the deceafed king, The Romans ordered Eumenes, 
kingof Perganuis 5 to affift Ariarathes with all his forces : 
w.bich. 
