If then, Castara, I in heaven nor move,
  Nor earth, nor hell, where am I but in love? 
  W. Habington, To Castara (died 1654).

The poetry of Habington shows that he possessed ... a real passion for a lady of birth and virtue, the “Castara” whom he afterwards married.—­Hallam.

CAS’TLEWOOD (Beatrix), the heroine of Esmond, a novel by Thackeray, the “finest picture of splendid lustrous physical beauty ever given to the world.”

CAS’TOR (Steph’anos), the wrestler.—­Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Castor, of classic fable, is the son of Jupiter and Leda, and twin-brother of Pollux.  The brothers were so attached to each other that Jupiter set them among the stars, where they form the constellation Gemini ("the twins").  Castor and Pollux are called the Dios’curi or “sons of Dios,” i.e. Jove.

CAS’TRIOT (George), called by the Turks “Scanderbeg” (1404-1467).  George Castriot was son of an Albanian prince, delivered as a hostage to Amurath II.  He won such favor from the sultan that he was put in command of 5000 men, but abandoned the Turks in the battle of Mora’va (1443).

  This is the first dark blot
  On thy name, George Castriot.

Longfellow, The Wayside Inn (an interlude).

CASTRUC’CIO CASTRACA’NI’S SWORD.

When Victor Emmanuel II went to Tuscany, the path from Lucca to Pistoia was strewed with roses.  At Pistoia the orphan heirs of Pucci’ni met him, bearing a sword, and said, “This is the sword of Castruccio Castracani, the great Italian soldier, and head of the Ghibelines in the fourteenth century.  It was committed to our ward and keeping till some patriot should arise to deliver Italy and make it free.”  Victor Emmanuel, seizing the hilt, exclaimed, “Questa e per me!” ("This is for me.")—­E.  B. Browning, The Sword of Castruccio Castracani.

CAS’YAPA.  The father of the immortals, who dwells in the mountain called Hemacu’ta or Himakoot, under the Tree of Life, is called “Casyapa.”  Southey, Curse of Kehama.  Canto vi. (1809).

CATEUCLA’NI, called Catieuchla’ni by Ptolemy, and Cassii by Richard of Cirencester.  They occupied Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire.  Drayton refers to them in his Polyolbion, xvi.

CATGUT (Dr.), a caricature of Dr. Arne in The Commissary, by Sam.  Foote (1765).

CATH’ARINE, queen-consort of Charles II; introduced by sir W. Scott in Peveril of the Peak. (See CATHERINE, and also under the letter K.)

Cath’arine (St.) of Alexandria (fourth century), patron saint of girls and virgins generally.  Her real name was Dorothea; but St. Jerome says she was called Catharine from the Syriac word Kethar or Kathar, “a crown,” because she won the triple crown of martyrdom, virginity, and wisdom.  She was put to death on a wheel, November 25, which is her fete day.