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1. căpella, ae, f. dim. [caper; cf.: puer, puella], a she-goat.

  1. I. Lit., Col. 7, 6, 4; Cat. 19, 16; 20, 10; Tib. 1, 1, 31; Verg. E. 7, 3; 10, 7; Hor. Epod. 16, 49; id. S. 1, 1, 110; id. Ep. 1, 7, 86; Ov. M. 13, 691 al.
    A piece of statuary, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87.
      1. 2. As a term of reproach, a dirty fellow, Amm. 17, 12; 24, 8 (cf. canicula).
  2. II. A star on the left shoulder of the constellation Auriga (usu. called capra), Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 248; rising in the rainy season; hence, sidus pluviale capellae, Ov. M. 3, 594: signum pluviale, id. F. 5, 113.

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

  1. I. An elegiac poet, Ov. P. 4, 16, 36.
  2. II. Capella Antistius, a teacher of rhetoric, Lampr. Comm. 1, 6.
  3. 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.
    Hence, Căpel-lĭānus, a um, adj., belonging to a Capella, Mart. 11, 31, 17.

* căpellĭānus, a, um, adj. [1. capella], of or pertaining to kids, goats: ruta, readily eaten by them, Mart. 11, 31, 17.

‡ căpellus, i, m. dim. [caper], a small goat, acc. to Prisc. p. 617.