CARNUTES, kar-nfetez, or CARNUTI, an ancient tribe living in central Gaul, at war with Cesar in 52 }Lc., having joined Ver cingetroix. Cesar burnt their chief town, called Cenabum. Augustus made the Carnutes, a acivitas fcederate (an allied state) and per mitted them to retain their own institutions. Their chief city was also called Carnutes. Con sult Holmes, 'Cmsar's Conquest of Gaul> (2d ed., Oxford 1911).
CARO, Armibale, Italian author: b. Civita Nuova 1507; d. 1566. In 1543 he was appointed secretary to Pietro Ludovico Farnese, Duke of Patina and Piacenza, who entrusted him with several missions to Charles V. After the assassination of the Duke his own life was in considerable danger. He took refuge in Parma, and was treated in a friendly manner by the new Duke, Ottavio Farnese, whose two brothers, the cardinals, Ranuccio and Alessan dro, took him successively into their service.
With the latter he remained from 1548 to his death in 1566, and received from him several ecclesiastical preferments. Caro devoted him self chiefly to the study of numismatics and the Tuscan language, and his pure and elegant style in verse and prose soon became generally ad mired. His translation of the 2Eneid in blank verse is excellent. After his death appeared a translation by him of Longus, and of Aristotle's 'Rhetoric' ; also 'Rime) (1569), and 'Lettere familiarP (1572-75), the former of which are admired for the elegance of the verse, and the latter as models of beautiful Italian prose. The best editions of Caro's works were published in Venice '(1757), in Milan (1806), and a vol tune of selected works appeared in Florence (1864).