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.)