at the Lucus Feroniae, with which he therefore proposed to
identify this site, placing Capena itself at S. Oreste, on the
south-eastern side of Mount Soracte. But there are difficulties in the
way of this assumption, and it is more probable that the Lucus Feroniae
is to be sought at or near Nazzano, where, in the excavation of a
circular building which some conjecture to have been the actual temple
of Feronia, inscriptions relating to a municipality were found. Others,
however, propose to place Lucus Feroniae at the church of S. Abbondio, 1
m. east of Rignano and 4 m. north-north-west of Civitucola, which is
built out of ancient materials. On the Via Flaminia, 26 m. from Rome,
near Rignano, is the Christian cemetery of Theodora.

See R. Lanciani, _Bullettino dell' Istituto_, 1870, 32; G.B. de Rossi,
_Annali dell' Istituto_, 1883, 254; _Bullettino Cristiano_, 1883, 115;
G. Dennis, _Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_ (London, 1883), i. 131;
E. Bormann, _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_ (Berlin, 1888), xi. 571;
H. Nissen, _Italische Landeskunde_ (Berlin, 1902), ii. 369; R.
Paribeni, in _Monumenti dei Lincei_, xvi. (1906), 277 seq. (T. As.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Some writers wrongly speak as though the two hills were identical.

CAPER, FLAVIUS, Latin grammarian, flourished during the and century. He
devoted special attention to the early Latin writers, and is highly
spoken of by Priscian. Caper was the author of two works--_De Lingua
Latina_ and _De Dubiis Generibus_. These works in their original form
are lost; but two short treatises entitled _De Orthographia_ and _De
Verbis Dubiis_ have come down to us under his name, probably excerpts
from the original works, with later additions by an unknown writer.

See F. Osann, _De Flavio Capro_ (1849), and review by W. Christ in
_Philologus_, xviii. 165-170 (1862), where several editions of other
important grammarians are noticed; G. Keil, "De Flavio Grammatico," in
_Dissertationes Halenses_, x. (1889); text in H. Keil's _Grammatici
Latini_, vii.

CAPERCALLY, or CAPERKALLY,[1] a bird's name commonly derived from the
Gaelic _capull_, a horse (or, more properly, a mare), and _coille_, a
wood, but with greater likelihood, according to the opinion of Dr
M'Lauchlan, from _cabher_, an old man (and, by metaphor, an old bird),
and _coille_, the name of _Tetrao urogallus_, the largest of the grouse
family (_Tetraonidae_), and a species which was form