Căpua

, the chief city of Camp an i a in Italy, supposed to have been founded by Capys, the father, or rather the companion, of Anchises. This city was very ancient, and so opulent that it even rivalled Rome, and was called alter a Roma . The soldiers of Annibal, after the battle of Cannæ, were enervated by the pleasures and luxuries which powerfully prevailed in this voluptuous city and under a soft climate. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 145 .— Livy , bks. 4, 7, 8, . — Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 7 ; bk. 2 , ch. 44 .— Florus , bk. 1 , ch. 16 .— Cicero , Philippics , bk. 12 , ch. 3 .— Plutarch , Life of Hannibal .