Caria, A region in Asta, hauing on the north side, the great ryuer Meander: On the west, the great sea Icarium: on the cast, Licia, and diuerse other countreys: Toward the south, the mountaine Tautus. The people thereof called Caes, were good men of warre, and therefore euerie where retayned for souldiours, as Suizars, or Suytheners bee nowe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cārĭa, ae, f., = *kari/a. I.A province in Asia Minor, south of Lydia, now the provinces Aïdin and Mentesche in Ejalet Anadoli, Mel. 1, 2, 6; 1, 16, 1; 2, 7, 4; Plin. 5, 27, 29, 103 sq.; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 46; Cic. Fl. 27, 65; id. Or. 8, 24; 18, 57; id. Div. 1, 41, 91; Nep. Ages. 3, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 1 al.—B. Hence, 1. Car, Cāris, a Carian, Cic. Fl. 27, 65; Nep. Dat. 1, 3.—Orig., the supposed father of the Carian race, and inventor of augury by observing the fightof birds, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 203.—And in plur.: Cāres, um, m., the inhabitants of Caria, the Carians, Liv. 33, 18, 9.—Acc. Gr. Cārăs, Plaut. Curc. 3, 73; Liv. 38, 13, 7; 44, 15, 1; Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 1; Verg. A. 8, 725; Ov. M. 4, 297; 9, 645; notorious for their treachery; hence the proverbial expression: quid? de totā Cariā nonne hoc vestrā voce vulgatum est, si quid cum periculo experiri velis, in Care id potissimum esse faciendum? Cic. l. l.—2. Cārĭcus, a, um, Carian: creta, Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 1; Plin. 18, 30, 73, 305.—Subst.: Cārĭca, ae (sc. ficus), a kind of dry fig, Pall. 1, 26, 2; 1, 30, 4; Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84; Stat. S. 4, 9, 26; also for dried figs, in gen., Ov. M. 8, 674; id. F. 1, 185; Plin. 13, 5, 10, 51.—II.A town in Caria, called also Hydrela, Liv. 37, 56, 3.— III.A harbor in Thrace, Mel. 2, 2, 5.