Capta
or CAPITA, a surname of the Minerva worshipped on the Caelian hill at Rome. Its origin was not known. Ovid (Ov. Fast. 3.837, &c.) proposes various conjectures about it.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.