Carpăthus (-ŏs, Mel. 2, 7, 13), i, f., = Κάρπαθος,
- I. an island in the Ægean Sea, between Crete and Rhodes, now Scarpanto, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 71; 5, 31, 36, § 133.
- II. Deriv.: Carpăthĭus, a, um, adj., = Καρπάθιος, Carpathian: mare, the sea named from Carpathus, Mel. 2, 7, 13; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 71; Prop. 3 (4), 7, 12; Verg. A. 5, 595; Hor. C. 4, 5, 10: gurges, Verg. G. 4, 387; and pelagus, Hor. C. 1, 35, 8; Col. 8, 16, 10: undae, Prop. 2, 5, 11: vates, i. e. Proteus, who had his abode there, Ov. M. 11, 249; cf. Verg. l. l. and Serv.; so also senex, Ov. Am. 2, 15, 10.