(Italian *catafalco*, a scaffold), a temporary structure of carpentry, decorated with painting and sculpture, and representing a tomb or cenotaph. The catafalque erected at Florence for the final interment of Michael Angelo was of unexampled magnificence.

**CATAGOGIA,** or feast of the return, a time of public rejoicing and festivity at Eryx in Sicily, to commemorate the return of Aphrodite (Venus), who was supposed at the feast of the *Anagogia* to go over to Africa accompanied by all the pigeons of the neighbourhood. At the return of the pigeons nine days after, the whole district, it is said, smelled of butter, which was regarded as a sign that the goddess had returned. (Ælian, *Hist. An.* iv.; V. II. i.; Athen. ix.)

**CATAGRAPHA,** a term used by Pliny to denote any oblique view of the countenance or figure, either in profile or otherwise; and which may be technically rendered *fore-shortenings*. Catagrapha are said to have been the invention of Cimon of Cleone, who probably flourished in the time of Solon, though Pliny assigns him to a much earlier period. (Plin. *H. N.* xxxv. 34; Ælian. *V. H.* viii. 8.)