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CANTILL5 (Id.), as, avx, atum, a. 1. to 
a sin o- low, to trill, chant. Apul. 
CANTI5 (Id.), onis, f. a song, madrigal, 
an air. Plant. -IT Also, an enchant¬ 
ment, incantation. Cic. 
CXNTIT5 (canto), as, avi, atum, a 
3 sin a- repeatedly, ssepius canto. Cic. 
CaNTIuNCOLA (cantio), as, f. dnmn. a 
1 little song, canzonet. Cic. 
CANTS (cano), as, avi, atum, frequentat. 
1 n. and a. 1. to sing often ; to sing, aoco, 
cano, cantum edo. Intransitively, to 
sinir; used of men and birds. Cic. Hi 
pueri cantare, et saltare didicerunt. Te- 
rent. Provocare aliquem cantatum. Kc- 
pos. Cantare ad chordarum sonum. Liv. 
Ad manuin cantare histrioni, h. c. to ac¬ 
company with, singing the gestures of the 
actor. Hence, in Quintil. 11, 3., to speak 
or declaim in a singing tone ; or, as some 
explain it, theatrically. Cic. Galli can- 
tant, h. e. crow. -Also, to produce mu¬ 
sical tones or notes, to sound ; of men, to 
play, or blow ; of the instrument itself, 
to sound, resound. Plant. Cantare fidi- 
bus. Ncpos. tibiis. Propert. Buccina 
cantat. Ooid. Tibia cantabat. — Al¬ 
so, to use or repeat magic incantations. 
Virg. Cantando rumpitur anguis.- 
IT Transitively, to sing. Gell. ver- 
sum. — Also, applied to actors who de¬ 
claim verses, and with a musical accompa¬ 
niment. Sueton. Cantare Nioben. Id. 
tragoedias. — Also, to celebrate in song, 
as of a poet. Hor. Nos convivia, nos 
preelia virginum cantamus. Virg. Can- 
tari dignus. Juvenal. Non est cantan- 
dum: res vera agitur, h. c. there is no 
need of poetical fiction. — Also, to be re¬ 
peating frequently, to enforce by frequent 
repetition. Terent. Haruin mores can¬ 
tabat mihi. Plant. Haecdies noctesque 
tibi canto, ut caveas. — Also, to point 
out or indicate distinctly, or merely to say. 
Plant. Metuo, ne idem cantent (liters). 
Id. Vera cantas, do you speak the truth ? 
— Also, to repeat a spell or magic incanta¬ 
tion. Ovid, carmen.— Also, to cause 
or produce by magic incantations. Sil. 
Chelydris soporem. — Also, to call up or 
raise by spells or charms. Lucan, um- 
bram. — Also, to bewitch or enchant. 
Ovid. Cantata herbs. Id. equi. Id. 
pabula. Propert. luna. 
CANTOR (Id.), oris, m. a singer. Horat. 
2 Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus. 
Cic. Cantor formularum, h. e. one who is 
continually repeating, as it were singing, 
&c.-IT Hence, a poet, bard. Propert. 
— Also, a player, actor. Cic. and Hor. 
— Also, an extoller. Cic. 
CaNTRTX (cantor), Icis, f. a female singer, 
3 songstress. Plant. 
CANTORIS (cano), is, n. 4. to sing, or re¬ 
peat according to music. Petruii. and 
Fcst. 
CANTOS (Id.), us, m. the act of singipg 
or tuning the voice ; song, pcXos, vocis 
modulatio. Cic. Cantus dulcis. Id. 
Flectere aliquem cantu. Virg. Mulcere 
sthera cantu. Tacit. Exercere cantus, to 
practise singing. Cic. fundere. Catull. 
edere, and, Virg. dare, to sing. Ovid. 
dure, and, Cic. edere, to crow. Horat. 
Cmtus galli, cock-crowing. Tibull. 
avis. Virg. noctus, screeching. - 
IT Also, sung, verse, poetry. Sil. Eve- 
here aliquem ad sidera cantu. Tacit. 
Per compositos cantus diis grates agere. 
-IT Also, a magic song, spell, an in¬ 
cantation. Tibull. Cantibus, atque her- 
bis solvere amores. Valer. Flacc. 
AEmoniis agitare cantibus umbras. 
-IT Also, musical sound , the sound of 
music, melody. Cic. Quotidiano cantu 
vocum, et nervorum, et tibiarum. Id. 
Cantus symphonis. Id. Moderari arbi- 
trio suo cantus, numerosque tibis, aut 
fidium. Id. Cantus buccinarum. Ho¬ 
rat. cithars. Pirn, lyrs, the music of 
the lyre. -IT Also, a sinking utterance. 
Cic. Oral. 18.-IT Also, the declaiming 
of an actor. Cic. de Orat. ], 00.-IT Al¬ 
so, prophecy, divination. Catull. Parcs 
coeperunt edere cantus. 
CANULEIUS, a, um, adj. pertaining to 
Canuleius, a Roman name. Liv. Lex 
Canuleia, a taw proposed by C. Canule¬ 
ius, a tribune of the people, admitting the 
vlcbcians to the consulship, and to inter¬ 
marriage with the patricians. 
CANOS (unc.), a, um, adj. white, hoar. Cic. 
] Cani fluctus, h. e. foamy. Horat. nix. Ov¬ 
id. plums cycni. Id. seges, h. e. ripening. 
Virg. gelu. Martial. December.- 
IT Also, gray, grayish, when it is ap¬ 
proaching to white ; gray-lieadcd.. Ho¬ 
rat. Cani capilli, or simply, Cic. and 
Ovid., cani, gray hairs. Ovid, lupus, h. e. 
as feeing the usual color of the wolf. 
Plaut. Cano capite esse. Martial, bar- 
ba. Catull. anilitas. Id. senectus. Ti¬ 
bull. Canus amator. — Also, gray, 
h. e. old, aged. Martial. Sscula cana. 
Varr. apud° JTon. Cana veritas. Virg. 
Cana Fides, et Vesta. 
CANOSIUM, i, n. Canosa, a town in Apu¬ 
lia. Plin. -IT Hence, Canusinus, a, 
um, adj. of or pertaining to Canusium. 
Ilorat. Canusini more bilinguis, h. e. 
speaking two languages, the Greek and 
Latin ; for the first “inhabitants of Ca¬ 
nusium were Greeks. Plin. Canusina 
lana, Ganusian wool, which was cele¬ 
brated. Hence, Martial. Canusina, sc. 
vestis, or poenula, a garment : of this 
wool. - IT Hence, Canusinatus, a, 
um, adj. dressed in a garment made of 
Canusianwool. Sueton. 
CXPACITaS (capax), atis, f. capacity, 
1 largeness, measure of a vessel, size. Cic. 
Utrum capacitatem aliquam in animo 
putamus esse, quo tanquam in aliquod 
vas, ea qus meminimus, infundantur? 
Colum. Pro capacitate vasorum. —IT Al¬ 
so, the quantity of food which one usually 
cats, gluttony. Plin. Athletarum capaci- 
tas jumentis similis.-IT Figur. the 
right or power of receiving an inheritance 
or bequest. Pandect. 
CXPXNEUS, ei & eos, m. Karrayevi 
3 [three syllables], one of the seven princes 
who besieged Thebes •• he was struck until 
a thunderbolt by Jupiter, as a punishment 
for having coniemned him. Stat. — Hence, 
Capanelus, or Capaneus, a, um, adj. of 
or pertaining to the same. Stat. 
CAPAX (capio), acis, adj. able to hold, ca¬ 
pable of containing, capacious, large, am¬ 
ple, big, Scktikos, qui capere seu conti- 
nere potest, magrius, amplus, latus. 
Horat. funde capacibus Unguenta de 
conchis. Id. Capaciores affer scyphos. 
Lucret. capacis moenia mundi. Ovid. 
Amnis eflusus ripis capacibus. Sil. 
Campi capaces, spacious, extensive. Liv. 
Vir cibi vinique capacissimus. Ovid. 
Circus capax populi. Plin. Calix capax 
ad tres sextarios. Plin. Jan. Villa usi- 
bus capax.-IT Figur. Cic. Aures ca¬ 
paces. Ovid. Ingenium capax, compre¬ 
hensive ; vast genius; great mind. Tacit. 
Vir capax imperii. Vellci. Laboris ac 
fidei capacissimus. Plin. Uxor omnis se- 
creti capacissima, h. e. knowing how to 
keep and conceal. Pandect. Doli ca¬ 
pax. LI. Impubes injuria; capax, h. c. 
able to inflict an injury. -_1T Among 
jurists, capax, one who has a right to re¬ 
ceive any thing by will or bequest. Pandect. 
OXPeDS (Id.), Inis, f. a pot or jug with 
1 a handle, used at sacrifices; also, a drink¬ 
ing cup. Cic. -IT From capcdo comes 
the dimin. capeduncula. Cic. — Capis, 
Idis, f. and capula, re, f. seem to be the 
same as Capcdo. Liv. — Capula, also, a 
vessel for oil. 
CAPEDUNCOLA. See Capcdo. 1 
CXPeLLA (capra), re, f. dimin. a young 
goat, a kid. Cic. and Virg. -IT Used, 
sometimes, as a term of reproach, ap¬ 
plied to a rough, boorish, deformed per¬ 
son. Ammian. -IT Also, the name of 
a star in the constellation. Auriga. Ovid. 
CAPELLA. Martianus Mineus Felix Ca- 
pella, a Carthaginian, who lived about the 
490tA year of the Christian era, and wrote 
on various subjects. 
CAPeLLIANOS (capella), a, um, adj of 
or pertaining to a goat. Martial. Capel- 
liana ruta, A. c. which the goats cat. 
CXPeNa, ae, f. anciently a town in Latium, 
near Rome -. it was afterwards destroyed, 
and from it the gate Capella in Rome was 
' named. Cic. and Juvenals - } 1! An¬ 
other town of the same name was in 7’us- 
cany, near the grove of Fcronia. — 
Hence, Capenas, atis, adj. of or pertain¬ 
ing to this town. Liv. -IT Capenas 
was also a small river of Tuscany. Sil. 
-IT Capenus, a, um, adject, pertain¬ 
ing to Capena, the town in Tuscany. Virg. 
CAPkR (unc.), pri, m. a lie-goat, whether 
castrated or not. Virg. and Martial. 
-IT Also, the smell rollick rises from the 
arm-pits. Catull. and Ovid. -IT Also, 
a fish in the river Achclous , which grunts. 
Plin. -IT In Manil., it stands for the 
constellation Capricorn. 
CXP£R5 (caper), as, avi, atum, a. and n. 
1. to draw into wrinkles, to wrinkle. Var- 
ro. Frons caperata. -- IT Also, to be 
wrinkled, to frown. Plaut. Frons ca- 
perat. 
CAPeSSS (capio), is, Ivi, Itum, a. 3. to 
lay hold of, catch at, take up, seize, cm- 
PaWoi. Cic. cibum. Virg. anna. 
-IT Also, figur. to lay lioli of, to 
grit.-? at, to take upon one’s sc{f, take in 
hand, undertake, enter upon, make use of. 
Liv. fugam. Tacit, noctem in castris 
tutam et vigilem, to pass the night in 
safety, &c. Plant, consilium, to take 
counsel. Liv. pugnam, to commence. 
Justin, preelium collatis viribus. Liv 
pericula, to face, brave. Gell. )"'jorem. 
Id. matrimonia. Tacit, in.micitias. 
Id. accusationes. Id. bellun. Plin. 
militiam. Tacit, honores, h. e. to enter 
upon public offices. Plin. in Paneg. 
curas imperii. Cic. and Sallust, rem- 
publicam, lr. c. to undertake affairs of 
state, to engage in public affairs, to inter¬ 
est one’s self in the state. Id. and Sal¬ 
lust. libertatem, h. e. to have a care for. 
Tacit, caerimonias. Id. clementiam ac 
justitiam. Horat. Capessere recta. Gell. 
philosophiam. Tacit. Omissis prsecipi- 
tibus, tuta et salutaria capessere, to 
adopt. Liv. Capessere spectaculum 
oculis, li. e. to enjoy. Cic. Omnes inun- 
di partes undique medium locum capes- 
sentes, nituntur squaliter, h. e. strive af¬ 
ter. Id. Animus superiora capessit, 
h. c. aims at, grasps at. — Also, to go 
any whither. Id. Melitam igitur capes- 
samus. Virg. Capessere Italiam. - 
Also, in a like sense, capessere se in ali¬ 
quem. locum. Plaut. Capessere se do- 
mum, to betake one’s self home. Id. Ca- 
pessere se navi in altum. Id. Quo nunc 
c.apessis tu te hinc advorsa via? Id. 
Quain se ad vitam, et quos ad mores 
pnecipitem inscitus capessat, A. e. quain 
vitam incipiat, sequatur. - IT Capes¬ 
sere jussa, to perform, despatch, execute. 
Virg. tuus, o regina, quid optes, Explo- 
rare labor: mihi jussa capessere fas est. 
So, Plaut. Capessere imperia. Id. Qui 
hero ex sententiaservire servus postulat, 
in herum matura, in se sera condecet 
capessere, A. e. res domini cito, suas se- 
ro exsequi.-IT Capessere sensus na¬ 
tural, in Gell. 1. 12. c. 1., to catch, h. e. 
understand. -IT Capisso, an ancient 
form for Capesso. Pacuv. ap. JVon. 
CAPHAREUS, ei & eos, m. [trisyllab.], 
3 K tKpapevs, a mountain and promontory of 
F.ubwa, famous for the shipwreck of the 
Grecian fleet on its return from Troy; 
for, when Nauplius, the king of that 
island, had learned that his son Palameies 
had been slain by the Grcelcs, he set a 
burning torch, in the darkness of night, on 
the top of the promontory, by which the 
fleet, being misled, was shipwrecked on the 
coast. Virg. and Valer. Flacc. -— 
IT Hence, Caphareus and Caphareus, a, 
um, adj. pertaining or belonging to Ca¬ 
phareus. Propert. and Ovid. -II Al¬ 
so, Capharis, Idis, adj. f. the same. 
Senec. 
CAPILLACkOS (capillus), a, um, adj. like 
hair. Plin. 
CAPILLAG5 (Id.), Inis, f. hair. Ter- 
tull. 
CXPTLLaMeNTUM (capillor), i, n. the 
2 braiding of the hair, a peruke, false hair: 
hair. Sueton. -IT Also, on account 
of the resemblance, small fibres, strings, 
or threads of roots, leaves, or other things. 
Plin. 
CAPTLLARIS (capillus), e, adject, reta¬ 
il ting to the hair, capillary. Apul. Capilla- 
ris herba, h. e. capillus Veneris. —— 
IT Capillaris arbor, accordingto Fcstusfl he 
same as arbor capillata. -IT Capillare, 
is, n. oil to rub the hair with. Martial. 
CAPILLATrS (capillor), onis, f. the cov- 
3 e-ring with hair. Paulin. Jfiolan. -j 
IT Also, a disease of the bladder, vdiensmau 
things, in the form of hair, are passed. 
Ccel. Aurel. 
