Cære

, Cæres , anciently Agylla , now Cerveteri , a city of Etruria, once the capital of the whole country. It was in being in the age of Strabo. When Æneas came to Italy, Mezentius was king over the inhabitants, called Cæretes or Cærites ; but they banished their prince, and a isted the Trojans. The people of Cære received with all po ible hospitality the Romans who fled with the fire of Vesta, when the city was besieged by the Gauls, and for this humanity they were made citizens of Rome, but without the privilege of voting; whence Cærites tabulæ was applied to those who had no suffrage, and Cærites cera appropriated as a mark of contempt. Virgil , Æneid , bks. 8 & 10.— Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 2 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .