CAPNOMANCY, a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in their sacrifices. The words come from zavros, smoke, and parvua, divination. The general rule was, when the smoke was thin and light, and rose straight up, it was a good omen; if the contrary, it was a bad one. There was also another species of capno-
1 Savigny's Geschichte des Römischen Rechts im Mittelalter, Bd. i S. 143. We quote Mr Catheart's translation, which, we are sorry to find, has not yet extended beyond the first volume. See likewise Eichhorn's Deutsche Staats- und Rechtsgeschichte, Th. I. S. 346, and Conringius De Origine Juris Germanici, p. 82. edit. Helmstedt. 1720, 4to.
2 In reference to this subject, the reader may consult a work entitled "Commentatio de Marculfinis aliisque similibus Formalis, Liber singularis: auctor Dr. J. A. L. Seidensticker." Jenae, 1818, 4to.
3 See above, vol. iv. p. 334.—The work described in the Biographie Universelle as a publication of various manuscripts, is merely a catalogue of Baluze's library. "Bibliotheca Baluziana, seu Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ v. cl. Stephani Baluzii Tutelensis." Paris. 1719, 2 tom. 8vo. This library contained 10,799 printed books, and many hundred manuscripts. Of one of his early publications, which we had no opportunity of inspecting, we have copied a French title from Nicéron, but the work is written in Latin: "Disquisitio Seculi quo vixit Sanctus Sacerdos, Episcopus Lemovicensis." Tutelæ Lemovicum, 1655, 8vo. Baluze obtained several other benefices besides those which we have mentioned in p. 333.
D'I- mancy, consisting in the observation of the smoke rising
from poppy and jasmine seed cast upon lighted coal.
CAPO D'ISTRIA, the capital of the Austrian province
of Istria, situated on a small island in the Gulf of Trieste.
It contains about 5000 inhabitants, and possesses a bishop's
see. Long. 13. 50. E. Lat. 45. 40. N.