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Caratăcus (Caractăcus and Ca-taratacus, v. Nipp. ad Tac. A. 12, 33), i, m., king of the Silures in Britain, Tac. l. l. sq.; id. H. 3, 45.

† cătăracta (also cătarracta), ae, f. (cătarractes, ae, m., Plin. and Sol.; v. the foll.), = ὁ καταρράκτης or καταράκτης.

  1. I. Lit., a waterfall, in gen.; the waterfalls of the Euphrates, Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 85.
    Hence,
    1. B. Meton. and κατ’ ἐξοχήυ, the celebrated fall of the Nile on the southern borders of Egypt, the Cataract: novissimo catarracte, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54.
      Acc. catarracten, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 59; Sol. 32: pervenit ad cataractam, Vitr. 8, 2, 6.
      Plur. fem.: cataractae, nobilis insigni spectaculo locus, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 4: praecipites cataractae, Luc. 10, 317; Amm. 22, 15, 9.
  2. II. In milit. lang., a drawbridge, portcullis, Veg. Mil. 4, 4; Liv. 27, 28, 10 and 11.
  3. III. A water-sluice, floodgate, Plin. Ep. 10, 61 (69), 4; Rutil. 1, 481 Zumpt.
  4. IV. A waterbird (that pounces down quickly), Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 126.

Cătăractes or Cătarrhactes, ae, m., = Καταρρακτης, a river in Pampnylia, now the Duden Su, Mel. 1, 14, 2; Plin. 5, 27, 26, § 96.

* cătăractrĭa, ae, f., a word coined to designate a kind of spice, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 47.

cătarrhactes, v. cataracta init., and Cataractes init.

† cătarrhus, i, m., = κατάρρους, a flowing down, the catarrh, rheum, Marc. Emp. 5; Plin. Val. 1, 2; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 17.