in Ancient Geography, a country of the Hither Asia; whose limits are extended by some, while they are contracted by others. Mela and Pliny extend the maritime Caria from Japhus and Halicarnassus, to Calynda, and the borders of Lycia. The inland Caria Ptolemy extends to the Meander and beyond. Car, Cariates, Cariatia, Carifia, and Coris, and Caira, are the gentilis names; Carius and Caricus the epithets. In Carae periculum, was a proverbial saying on a thing exposed to danger, but of no great value. The Carae being the Swils of those days, were hired and placed in the front of the battle, (Cicero.) Cum Carae Carifia, denoted the behaviour of clowns. The Carae came originally from the islands to the continent, being formerly subject to Minos, and called Lelages: this the Cretans affirm, and the Carae deny, making themselves aborigines. They are of a common origin with the Myli and Lydi, having a common temple, of a very ancient standing, at Melasfa, a town of Caria, called Jovis Carii Delubrum, (Herodotus.) Homer calls the Carians, barbarians in language.