CAPOTES
CAPOTES (
Dújik Tágh), a mountain of Armenia, from the spurs of which Pliny (
5.20. s. 24), on the authority of Licinius Mucianus, describes the Euphrates as taking its rise.
He fixes its position 12 M. P. above Zimara. Pliny (
l.c.) quotes Domitius Corbulo in placing the sources of the Euphrates in Mt. Aba, the same undoubtedly as the Abus of Strabo (
xi. p.527). Capotes therefore formed
[p. 1.506]part of the range of Abus. St. Martin (
Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol. i. p. 43) derives the name Capotes from the Armenian word
Gaboid, signifying
blue, an epithet commonly given to high mountains. Ritter (
Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 80, 653, 801, 823) identifies Capotes with the
Dújik range or great water-shed between the E. and W. branches of the Euphrates. The
Murád-cháï, the E. branch or principal stream of the Euphrates, takes its rise on the S. slope of
Alá--Tágh. (Chesney,
Exped. Euphrat. vol. i. p. 42;
Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. vi. p. 204, vol. x. p. 369.)
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