I.an island in the Ægean Sea, between Crete and Rhodes, now Scarpanto, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 71; 5, 31, 36, § 133.—
II. Deriv.: Carpăthĭus , a, um, adj., = Καρπάθιος, Carpathian: “mare,” the sea named from Carpathus, Mel. 2, 7, 13; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 71; Prop. 3 (4), 7, 12; Verg. A. 5, 595; Hor. C. 4, 5, 10: “gurges,” Verg. G. 4, 387; “and pelagus,” Hor. C. 1, 35, 8; Col. 8, 16, 10: “undae,” Prop. 2, 5, 11: “vates,” i. e. Proteus, who had his abode there, Ov. M. 11, 249; cf. Verg. l. l. and Serv.; “so also senex,” Ov. Am. 2, 15, 10.
