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CAPHA´REUS

CAPHA´REUS or CAPHE´REUS (Καφήρευς,) a rocky and dangerous promontory, forming the south-eastern extremity of Euboea, now called Kavo Doro or Xylofágo; it was known by the latter name in the middle ages. (Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 384.) It was off this promontory that the Grecian [p. 1.505]fleet was wrecked on its return from Troy. (Eur. Tro. 90, Helen. 1129; Hdt. 8.7; Strab. viii. p.368; Paus. 2.23.1, 4.36.6; Verg. A. 11.260; Prop. 3.5. 55; Ov. Met. 14.472, 481, Trist. 1.1. 83, 5.7. 36; Sil. Ital. 14.144; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 423.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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William Smith, LLD, Ed.