CAPRA, or the SHE-GOAT, a name given to the star Capella, on the left shoulder of Auriga, and some-
times to the constellation Capricorn. Some again represent Capra as a constellation in the northern hemisphere, consisting of three stars, comprised between the 45th and 55th degree of latitude.—The poets fable her to be Amalthea's goat, which suckled Jupiter in his infancy.