B.C. according to Evans, and was practised far down into the later
Greek times. They show that the Greeks are indebted to the Mycenaean
peoples not only for their art, but for the chief of their divinities.

AUTHORITIES.--1. Britain: Boyd Dawkins, _Cave-hunting_ (1874); _Early
Man_ (1880); Mattel, _Irlande et cavernes anglaises_ (1897); Buckland,
_Reliquiae Diluvianae_ (1821); _Brit. Assoc. Reports_ (1860-1875);
_Journ. Anthrop. Inst._ (1870-1876); _Quart. Geol. Journ._
(1860-1875); Pengelly, _Trans. Devonshire Association_. 2. The
European Continent: Martel, _Les Abimes_ (1894); Cartailhac and
Breuil, _L'Anthropologie_, xv., xvi.; Lartet and Christy, _Reliquiae
Aquitanicae; Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology_; Marcel de
Serres, _Les Ossemens fossiles de Lunel Viel_; Dupont, _L'Homme
pendant les ages de la pierre dans les environs de Dinant-sur-Meuse_;
Schmerling, _Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles decouverts dans les
cavernes de Liege_; Merk, _Excavations at Kesserloch_, transl. J.E.
Lee (1876). For the chief American caves, see LURAY CAVERN, MAMMOTH
CAVE, WYANDOTTE CAVE, COLOSSAL CAVERN, JACOB'S CAVERN. (W. B. D.)

CAVEA, the Latin name given to the subterranean cells in which the wild
beasts were confined prior to the combats in the Roman arena. The term
is sometimes applied to the amphitheatre (q.v.) itself.

CAVEAT (Latin for "let him beware," from _cavere_), in law, a notice
given by the party interested (caveator) to the proper officer of a
court of justice to prevent the taking of a certain step without
warning. It is entered in connexion with dealings in land registered in
the land registry, with the grant of marriage licences, to prevent the
issuing of a lunacy commission, to stay the probate of a will, letters
of administration, &c. Caveat is also a term used in United States
patent law (see PATENTS).

_Caveat emptor_ ("let the buyer beware") is a maxim which implies that
the responsibility for making a bad bargain over a purchase rests on the
purchaser. In an ordinary contract for the sale of goods, there is no
implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any
particular purpose of the goods supplied, with certain exceptions, and,
therefore, the buyer takes at his own risk. The maxim does not apply (a)
where the buyer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the seller
the particular purpose for which the goods are required, so