in Ancient Geography, a town of Etruria, the royal residence of Mezentius. Its ancient name was Argylla. In Strabo's time not the least vestige of it remained, except the baths called ceretona. From this town the Roman censor's tables were called cerites tabulae. In these were entered the names of such as for some misdemeanor forfeited their right of suffrage, or were degraded from a higher to a less honourable tribe. For the people of Caere hospitably receiving those Romans who, after the taking of Rome by the Gauls, fled with their gods and the sacred fire of Vesta, were, on the Romans recovering themselves from this disaster, honoured with the privilege of the city, but without a right of voting.

CAERITES TABULE. See the preceding article.