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CARPINATIUS. CARRINAS. 615
&c.; Ritter, Gesch. Phil. xi. 6; Brucker, Hist. PMhl. puty-manager of the company of publicani, who
i. p. 759, &c., vi. p. 237, &c.) farmed the scripstira (see Dict. of Ant. s. v.) in
2. An Athenian philosopher and a disciple of Sicily during the government of Verres, with whom
Anaxagoras. (Suidas, s. v. Kapvea'dis.) he was very intimate. He is called by Cicero a
3. A Cynic philosopher in the time of Apollonius second Timarchides, who was one of the chief
Tyanaeus. (Eunapius, Prooem.) agents of Verres in his robberies and oppressions.
4. A bad elegiac poet mentioned by Diogenes (Cic. Verr. 70, 76, iii. 71.)
Laertius (iv. 66). [A. G.] CA'RPIO, an architect, who, in company with
CARNEIUS (Kapve'os), a surname of Apollo Ictinus, wrote a book concerning the Parthenon.
under which he was worshipped in various parts (Vitr. vii. praef. 12.) [W. I.]
of Greece, especially in Peloponnesus, as at Sparta CARPO'PHORI (Kap7ropo'por),the fruitbearers,
and Sicyon, and also in Thera, Cyrene, and Magna a surname of Demeter and Cora, under which they
Graecia. (Paus. iii. 13. ~ 2, &c., ii. 10. ~ 2, were worshipped at Tegea. (Paus. viii. 53. ~ 3.)
11. ~ 2; Pind. Pyth. v. 106; Plut. Sympos. viii. Demeter Carpophoros appears to have been wor1; Paus. iii. 24. ~ 5, iv. 31. ~ 1, 33. ~ 5.) The shipped in Paros also. (Ross, Reisen aruf den
origin of the name is explained in different ways. Griech. Inseln, i. p. 49.) [L. S.]
Some derived it from Carnus, an Acarnanian sooth- CARRHE'NES. [CARRENES.]
sayer, whose murder by Hippotes provoked Apollo CARRI'NAS or CARI'NAS, the name of a
to send a plague into the army of Hippotes while Roman family, but the gens to which it belonged
he was on his march to Peloponnesus. Apollo is nowhere mentioned: Havercamp (Thes. Morell.
was afterwards propitiated by the introduction of p. 497) supposes it to be a cognomen of the Albia
the worship of Apollo Carneius. (Paus. iii. 13. gens.
~ 3; Schol. ad Theocrit. v. 83.) Others believed 1. C. CARRINAS, is mentioned first as the comthat Apollo was thus called from his favourite mander of a detachment of the Marian party, with
Carnus or Carneius, a son of Zeus and Europa, which he attacked Pompey, who was levying
whom Leto and Apollo had brought up. (Paus. troops in Picenum to strengthen the forces of
1. c.; Hesych. s.. Kapveos.) Several other Sulla in B. c. 83, immediately after his arrival in
attempts to explain the name are given in Pausa- Italy. In the year after, B. c. 82, Carrinas was
nias and the Scholiast on Theocritus. It is evident, legate of the consul Cn. Papirius Carbo [CAoRo,
however, that the worship of the Carneian Apollo No. 7.], and fought a battle on the river Aesis, in
was very ancient, and was probably established in Umbria, against Metellus, in which however he was
Peloponnesus even before the Dorian conquest. beaten. He was attacked soon after in the neighRespecting the festival of the Carneia see Diet. of bourhood of Spoletium, by Pompey and Crassus,
Ant. s. v. Kdpvesa. [L. S.] two of Sulla's generals, and after a loss of nearly
CARNEIUS (KapvEos), a Cynic philosopher, 3000 men, he was besieged by the enemy, but
who is surnamed Cynulcus (Kivov'Xcos), that is, found means to escape during a dark and stormy
the leader of dogs or Cynics, or, in other words, night. After Carbo had quitted Italy, Carrinas
the leader and teacher of Cynic philosophers. He and Marcius continued to command two legions;
was a native of Megara, but nothing further is and after joining Damasippus and the Samnites,
known of him. (Athen. iv. p. 156.) [L. S.] who were still in arms, they marched towards the
CARN[U'LIUS, was accused, in the reign of passes of Praeneste, hoping to force their way
Tiberius, of some crime not now known, and put through them and relieve Marius, who was still
an end to his own life to escape the cruel tortures besieged in that town. But when this attempt
inflicted by Tiberius upon other victims. When failed, they set out against Rome, which they
Tiberius heard of his death, he was grieved at hoped to conquer without difficulty, on account of
losing an opportunity of killing a man in his own its want of provisions. They encamped in the
way, and exclaimed Carnulius m'e evasit. (Suet, neighbourhood of Alba. Sulla, however, hastened
Tib. 61.) [L. S.] after them, and pitched his camp near the Colline
CARPA'TIIUS, JOANNES ('IooiWsV Kap- gate. A fearful battle was fought here, which
7Ardtos), a bishop of the island of Carpathos, of un- began in the evening and lasted the whole night,
certain date. At the request of the monks of India until at last Sulla took the camp of the enemy.
he wrote to them a consolatory work in 100 chap- Carrinas and the other leaders took to flight, but
ters, entitled rpds rods d r vs 'Ivslas sorrpoTpe'avras he and Marcius were overtaken, and put to death
1povuaXovs rapa0KrTrued1v. (Phot. Cod 201.) This by command of Sulla. Their heads were cut off
work is still extant, and a Latin translation of it and sent to Praeneste, where they were carried
by J. Pontanus is printed at the end of his "Diop- round the walls to inform Marius of the destructrae Philippi Solitarii," Ingolstadt, 1654, 4to., tion of his friends. (Appian, B. C. i. 87, 90, 92,
and in the "Bibliotheca Patrum," xii. p. 535, &c., 93; Plut. Pomp. 7; Oros. v. 21; Eutrop. v. 8.)
The Greek original, as well as some other ascetic 2. C. CARRINAS, a son of No. 1, was sent by
works of his, are still extant in MS. (Fabric. Caesar, in B. c. 45, into Spain against Sext. PomBibl. Grace. x. p. 738, &c., xi. p. 173.) [L. S.] peius, but as he did not accomplish anything, he
CARPA'THIUS PHILO. [PHILO.] was supersedbd by Asinius Pollio. In 43, after
CARPHY'LLIDES (KapqvAA1iSjs), a Greek the establishment of the triumvirate, Carrinas was
poet, of whom there are extant two elegant epi- appointed consul for the remainder of the year,
grams in the Greek Anthology. (vii. 260, ix. 52.) together with P. Ventidius. Two years later,
The name of the author of the second epigram is a. c. 41, he received from Octavianus the admisometimes written Carpyllides; but whether this nistration of the province of Spain, where he had
is a mere mistake, or whether Carpyllides is a dif- to carry on war with the Mauretanian Bocchus.
ferent person from Carphyllides, cannot be ascer- In 36, he was sent with three legions against Sext.
tamed. [L. S.] Pompeius in Sicily; and about 31, we find him
L. CARPINA'TIUS, the pro-magister or de- as proconsul in Gaul, where he was successful