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of the Englifh nobility on their travels fat to him for their 
portraits ; which being highly admired, Nicoletto was in¬ 
vited to England, with (irong alfurances of a generous re¬ 
ception ; and on his arrival he experienced the kindnefs, 
the refpetft, and the liberality, fo peculiar to the natives 
of this kingdom. He had the honour of being introduced 
to queen Anne, and to paint her portrait; in which he 
fucceeded fo happily, that the queen diftlnguifhed him by 
many marks of favour and honour ; he died in London, 
in 1713. 
CASSA'NA (Giovanni Agoftino), called f’Abate 
Cadiina, was brother to the preceding, born in 1664. He 
was alfo educated by their father Francefco Caffana; and 
finiHied his (Indies at Venice, where his brother Nicolo re- 
fided for fome time. Although he compoled hiftorical 
fubjeCts with a corredtnefs equal to his brother; yet from 
fratepnal affedtion he declined to interfere with him* and 
chofe therefore to delign and paint animals and fruit. In 
that llyle he arrived at great excellence, imitating nature 
with exadtnefs, beauty, and truth ; exprefling the various 
plumage of birds, and the hairs of different animals, with 
fitch tendernefs and delicacy, as rendered them eflimable 
to all judges and lovers of the art. His works were ad¬ 
mitted into the collections of'perlons of the firfl rank, and 
were accounted curious and valuable. 
CASSA'NDER, king of Macedon, after Alexander 
the Great, Was the foil of Antipater. He made feveral 
conquefls in Greece, aboliflied democracy at Athens, and 
gave the government of that (fate to the orator De¬ 
metrius. Olympias, the mother of Alexander, having 
caufed Aridasus and his wife Euridyce, with others of 
Cafrander’s party, to be put to death ; hebefieged Pydne, 
whither the queen had retired, took it by flratagem, and 
caufed her to be put to death. He married Thelfaionica 
the filler of Alexander the Great; and killed Roxana and 
Alexander, the wife and fon of that conqueror. At 
length he entered into an alliance with Seleucus aud Lifi- 
inachus, againft Antigonus and Demetrius: over whom 
fie obtained a great victory near Ipfus in Phrygia, 301 
years before the Chriflian aera, and died three years after, 
in the 19th year of his reign. See Macedon. 
CASSAN'DRA, in fabulous hifiory, was the daughter 
©f Priam and Hecuba, and paflionately loved by A.pollo, 
who promifed to grant her whatever (lie might require, if 
file would gratify his palTion. She afked the power of 
knowing futurity ; and, as foon as-(he had received it, (lie 
refufed to perform her promile, and (lighted Apollo. 
The god, in his difappointment, wetted her lips with his 
tongue, and by this aCtion effected that no credit or reli¬ 
ance fiiould be put upon her predictions, however true or 
faithful they might be. Some maintain that (lie received 
the gift of prophecy with her brother Helenus, by being 
placed when young one night m tire temple of Apollo, 
where ferpents were found wreathed round their bodies, 
and licking their ears, which circumftance gave them the 
knowledge of futurity. She was looked upon by the 
Trojans as infane, and w'as even confined, and her predic¬ 
tions were difregarded. She was courted by many princes 
during the Trojan war. When Troy was taken, (he fled 
for (belter to the temple of Minerva, w here Ajax found 
her, and offered her violence, at the foot of Minerva’s 
ilatue. In the divifion of the fpoils of Troy, Agamem¬ 
non, who was enamoured of her, took her as his wife, 
and returned with her to Greece. She repeatedly foretold 
to him the hidden calamities that awaited his return; but 
lie gave no credit to her, and was affaflinated by his wife 
Clytemneftra. Caftandra (hared his fate, and law all her 
prophecies but too truly fulfilled. 
CASSAN'DRA (Gulf of), a bay on the coaft of Eu¬ 
ropean Turkey, in the north-weft part of the Archipe¬ 
lago, eaft of the Gulf of Saloniki. Lat. 40. N. Lon. 41. 
30. E. Ferro. 
CASSAN'DRA NOVA, a town of European Turkey, 
in the province of Macedonia, fituated on tne north coaft 
of the entrance into the Gulf of Saloniki ; fifteen miles 
iouUi-eaft of Saloniki, 
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CASS AN'DRE (Francois), diftfiiguifned for an elegant 
a-nd faithful Tranflation of Ariftotle’s Poetics into French. 
He was a man of a very violent temper, and of very im¬ 
prudent conduCt, and lived in great want. He is- thus 
deferibed by Boiieau : “ Je fuis rujliqut et fur, and j’ai 
i'ame gvojiere.” His difeohtented turn of mind followed 
him to the grave ; for as he was dying, extended on a mi- 
ferable pallet bed, his confelfor exhorted him to return 
his thanks to the Deity for all the bleflirigs he had re¬ 
ceived from him. “ Yes, to be Cure,-’ exclaimed the pe¬ 
tulant C&ffandre, “ he has fuffefed me to play a very pi¬ 
tiful part here indeed : you know how he Iras permitted 
me to live, and you now fee how he lets me die !” Thus, 
from the prefent imperfection of things, every ftate of 
life is obnoxious to' difeontent and complaint. Thofe, 
however, (liould indulge them with more caution, whofe 
mifery is procured by folly and by vice, and who have 
no reafoh to expeCt the interference of Omnipotence in 
thofe diftrefles of w hich themfelves are the authors. 
CASSAN'DRIA, a town of Dutch Flanders, in the 
ifland of Cadfand : one league north of Sluys. , 
CASSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and country of Bari: fifteen miles fonth of Bari. 
CASSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na- 
pies, and Principato Ultra : twelve miles weft of Conza. 
CASSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the. kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Citra, the fee of a bifliop, 
(uffragan of Cofenz'a : twenty-one miles north-weft of 
Rolfano, and 119 eaft-fouth-eaft of Naples. 
CASSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the duchy-of Milan, 
fituated on the Adda. Prince Eugene received a check 
here from the duke of Vendome, on the i6th of Auguft, 
1705 : fixteen miles north-eaft of Milan. 
CASSARA'NO, a town of Italy in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Otranto: eight miles N.W. Alleifano. 
To CAS'SATE, v. a. [ cajfer, Fr. cajfare , low Lat.] To 
vacate; to invalidate; to make void; to nullify.—This opi¬ 
nion fuperfedes and caJJ'ates the beft medium we have. Bar, 
C ASSA'TION,yi [ ca/fatio , Lat.] A making null or void. 
CASSA'TUM,yi Weak fpiritlefs blood, tharisgru- 
mous, and hinders the paffage of the circulating blood. 
It is a word of Paracelfus. 
CASSE'DE, a town of Spain, in Navarre ; two leagues 
from Sanguefa. 
CASSEE'N, a town in Arabia Felix. 
CASSEE'TAS, a town of United America, in the ftate 
of Georgia : 165 miles yveft-fouth-weft of Auguftine. 
CAS'SEL, a city of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, capital of Lower-Heffe, and reiidence of 
the landgrave. The river Fulda divides it into two un¬ 
equal parts, one of which is called the Old Town, the 
other the New, which are united by a bridge of 120 paces 
in length, the former is the largeft, but ill builtr; the 
ftreetsare narrow and winding ; the houles irregular, old, 
and for the moft part built with wood. The New Town 
is divided into Upper and Lower, the latter is (mall, and 
as ill built as the Old.-Town ; the Upper New Town, call¬ 
ed alfo the French Town, having been firft inhabited by 
French Proteftants, who emigrated after tire revocation of 
the edict of Nantz, is built in a ftyle of modern elegpnce. 
The ftreets are wide and ftraight; the houfes uniform, 
with many magnificent palaces and public buildings. In 
the whole city they count 25,000 inhabitants. There are 
feveral churches, and amongft the public buildings are the 
prince’s palace, which is a fortrefs, furrounded by lofty ram¬ 
parts; a public library, well furniflied with books, manu- 
feripts, paintings, &c. a theatre, a magazine of corn and 
wood, an anatomical theatre, &c. Mr. Gray, in his tour 
through Germany, publifhed in 1794, gives the following 
defeription of this place. “ Caflel is a beautiful town, and 
fomewhat refembles Bath. We took up our abode in the 
circus; the public buildings have a claflical appearance ; 
the manege is light and elegant; the pavilion is built in a 
good ftyle of architecture, and pleafantly fituated in !i gar¬ 
den, perfumed and richly decorated with orange-tree's, and 
x enlivened 
