CARTAPH’ILUS, the Wandering Jew of Jewish story.  Tradition says he was doorkeeper of the judgment-hall, in the service of Pontius Pilate, and, as he led our Lord from the judgment-hall, struck Him, saying “Get on!  Faster, Jesus!” Whereupon the Man of Sorrows replied, “I am going fast, Cartaphilus; but tarry thou till I come again.”  After the crucifixion, Cartaphilus was baptized by the same Anani’as who baptized Paul, and received the name of Joseph.  At the close of every century he falls into a trance, and wakes up after a time a young man about thirty years of age.—­Book of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St. Allans.

(This “book” was copied and continued by Matthew Paris, and contains the earliest account of the Wandering Jew, A.D. 1228.  In 1242 Philip Mouskes, afterwards bishop of Tournay, wrote the “rhymed chronicle.”)

CARTER (Mrs. Deborah), housekeeper to Surplus the lawyer.—­J.  M. Morton, A Regular Fix.

CAR’THAGE (2 syl.).  When Dido came to Africa she bought of the natives “as much land as could be encompassed with a bull’s hide.”  The agreement being made, Dido cut the hide into thongs, so as to enclose a space sufficiently large for a citadel, which she called Bursa “the hide.” (Greek, bursa, “a bull’s hide.”)

The following is a similar story in Russian history:—­The Yakutsks granted to the Russian explorers as much land as they could encompass with a cow’s hide; but the Russians, cutting the hide into strips, obtained land enough for the town and fort which they called Yakutsk.

CARTHAGE OF THE NORTH.  Luebeck was so called when it was the head of the Hanseatic League.

CAR’THON, son of Cless’ammor and Moina, was born while Clessammor was in flight, and his mother died in childbirth.  When he was three years old, Comhal (Fingal’s father) took and burnt Balclutha (a town belonging to the Britons, on the Clyde), but Carthon was carried away safely by his nurse.  When grown to man’s estate, Carthon resolved to revenge this attack on Balclutha, and accordingly invaded Morven, the kingdom of Fingal.  After overthrowing two of Fingal’s heroes, Carthon was slain by his own father, who knew him not; but when Clessammor learnt that it was his own son whom he had slain, he mourned for him three days, and on the fourth he died.—­Ossian, Carthon.

CAR’TON (Sydney), a friend of Charles Darnay, whom he personally resembled.  Sydney Carton loved Lucie Manette, but knowing of her attachment to Darnay, never attempted to win her.  Her friendship, however, called out his good qualities, and he nobly died instead of his friend.—­C.  Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859).

CARTOUCHE, an eighteenth century highwayman.  He is the French Dick Turpin.

CA’RUS (Slow), in Garth’s Dispensary, is Dr. Tyson (1649-1708).

CARYATI’DES (5 syl.), or CARYA’TES (4 syl.), female figures in Greek costume, used in architecture to support entablatures Ca’rya, in Arcadia, sided with the Persians when they invaded Greece, so after the battle of Thermop’ylae, the victorious Greeks destroyed the city, slew the men, and made the women slaves, Praxit’eles, to perpetuate the disgrace, employed figures of Caryan women with Persian men, for architectural columns.