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 Jasus and Halicarnassus, to Calynda, and the borders of Lycia. The inland Caria Ptolemy extends to the Meander and beyond. Car, Cariates, Cariatis, Carissa and Caris, and Caira, are the gentilic names; Carius and Cariacus the epithets. In Care periculum, was a proverbial saying on a thing exposed to danger, but of no great value. The Cares being the Swiss of those days, were hired and placed in the front of the battle, (Cicero). Cum Care Carissa, denoted the behaviour of clowns. The Cares came originally from the islands to the continent, being formerly subject to Minos, and called Leleges: this the Cretans affirm, and the Cares deny, making themselves aborigines. They are of a common original with the Myci and Lydi, having a common temple, of a very ancient standing, at Melassa, a town of Caria, called Jovis Carii Delubrum, (Herodotus). Homer calls the Carians, barbarians in language.