Capella

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Căpella . ae, m., a Roman proper name.

I An elegiac poet , Ov. P. 4, 16, 36. —

II Capella Antistius, a teacher of rhetoric , Lampr. Comm. 1, 6.—

III Martianus Mineus Felix Capella, a learned grammarian of Madaura , in Africa , in the second half of the fifth century; his Satyricon treats of the liberal arts.

IV —Hence, Căpel-lĭānus , a um, adj., belonging to a Capella , Mart. 11, 31, 17.

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A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.