Capella. ae, m., a Roman proper name. An elegiac poet, Ov. P. 4, 16, 36.

— Capella Antistius, a teacher of rhetoric, Lampr. Comm. 1, 6.

— Martianus Mineus Felix Capella, a learned grammarian of Madaura, in Africa, in the second half of the fifth century; his Satyricon treats of the liberal arts.

—Hence, Capel-liānus, a um, adj., belonging to a Capella, Mart. 11, 31, 17.