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Cărўae

Cărўae · f

a village in Laconia

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What it meant

Cărўae — Lewis & Short

Cărўae, ārum, f., = *karu/ai,

I a village in Laconia, with a temple of Diana Caryatis (now still Karyes), Liv. 34, 26, 9; 35, 27, 12. —In sing.: Cărўa, Vitr. 1, 1, 5.—

II Hence,

A Cărўātes, ium, m., the inhabitants of Caryœ, Vitr. 1, 1 bis.—

B Cărўā-tis, ĭdis, f., = *karua=tis.

1 An epithet of Diana, Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 30.—

2 Cărў-ātĭdes, the maidens of Caryœ serving in the temple of Diana, a statue of Praxiteles, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 23.—

(b) In architecture, female figures used instead of columns in buildings, Caryatides, Vitr. 1, 1, 5 (v. the representation of such a Caryatide from the temple of Pallas Polias, at Athens, in O. Müller, Denkm. d. alt. Kunst, 101, and Dict. of Antiq.).—

3 Cărўus, a, um, adj., of Caryœ: Diana, Stat. Th. 4, 225.

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