Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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EUROPEAN GREECE.
CAPHY^ Arcadia.
Note.— Caplijee was one of the cities of Arcadia which survived the foundation of Megalopolis, and
still existed in the time of Pausanias. Its name is chiefly known by the victory gained there
by the jEtolians over the Achaians, under Aratus, in the year B. c. 220, which has been described by
Polybius (4, 6).— Vide Tr. in the Morfe, III. p. 122.
Geta,
ETA Head of Geta to r.
in right hand, rudder ; in left, cornucopise.
CARDIA Thraciffi.
R. KAYATIMN. Fortune to I.;
Nfite.— According to Herodotus (7, 58), the route of the army of Xerxes, from Sestus to the head
of the gulf of Melas, was through the town of Agora, leaving Cardiato the left. It is evident, therefore,
that Cardia was not on the narrowest isthmus of the Chersonese, but on the shore of the gulf of
Melas, probably at Xerds, which, with an island opposite to it, also called Xerds, now gives name to
that gulf. We find a confirmation of this position of Cardia, in the breadth of the isthmus between
that town and Pactye on the Hellespont, across which Miltiades, when called in to the assistance of
the Thracians of the Chersonese, built a wall against the Apsynthii. This breadth, according to
Herodotus (6, 36), was thirty-six stades ; according to Scylax (p. 28), forty, or more than double that of
the true isthmus of the peninsula, where its Umit was marked by an altar of Jupiter, thus leaving the
territory of Cardia on the outside of the proper Chersonesus (Demosth. de Halon., p. 8C, Keiske).
The Thracian Chersonese is so much connected with Athenian history, that it well deserves the
attention of the exploring traveller, whose task would now be assisted by the Admiralty Survey^
No. 1654, and who would, probably, be successful in finding vestiges of most of the Chersonesaii
towns. Besides those within the peninsula may be mentioned Pteleum, and Leuce Acte, on the
narrow isthmus ; and eastward of it, Lysimachia, Cardia, Cobrys, Agora, and Pactye.
Head of Ceres to I.
grain of barley.
Two others.
B. KAPAIA(i'u»v). Lion walking to ^. ; in its mouth?; below,
CASSANDREIA Macedonia;.
Note.—Cassandreia wa» founded on the isthmus of Pallene, on or very near the site of Potidsea.
Its advantageous position attracted the notice of Augustus, as appears from the coins of the Roman
colony, styled Julia Augusta Caasandrca, which extend from his reign to that of Philip. No coins of
the Greek Cassandreia are known.
Geta.
SER. GETAS CAE. Bust of Geta to r. B. COL. IVLI. AVG. CASS. Head of
Jupiter Ammon to r.
Note.—The head of Ammon occurs also on coins of the neighbouring town of Aphytse.
CASSOPE Epiri.
Note.—Eckhel (II. p. 1 63) supposed the ancient geographers to have indicated the existence of two
towns of this name in Epirus, besides the Cassope or Cassiope of Corcyra, noted for its temple of Jupiter
Casius ; in truth, however, there was but one Cassope, that of which I have described the extensive
ruins at Kamarina, a lofty inland position, ten geographical miles to the north of Nicopolis. — Vide Tr.
in N. Greece, I. p. 244. The mistake seems to have arisen from Ptolemy (3, 14), who places a port
Cassiope on the shore of Epirus, between Onchesmus and Cape Posidium, or nearly opposite to the
Cassiope of Corcyra.