Caphareus
Καφήρευς
Caphareus or CAPHEREUS (Καφήρευς,) a rocky and dangerous promontory, forming the south-eastern extremity of Euboea, now called Kavo Doro or Xylofágo; it was known by the latter name in the middle ages. (Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 384.) It was off this promontory that the Grecian fleet was wrecked on its return from Troy. (Eur. Tro. 90, Helen. 1129; Hdt. 8.7; Strab. viii. p.368; Paus. 2.23.1, 4.36.6; Verg. A. 11.260; Prop. 3.5. 55; Ov. Met. 14.472, 481, Trist. 1.1. 83, 5.7. 36; Sil. Ital. 14.144; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 423.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.