Caca

• a sister of Cacus, Lact. 1, 20, 36; Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 190.

or Ca'cia, a sister of Cacus, who, according to some accounts, betrayed the place where the cattle were concealed which Cacus had stolen from Hercules or Recaranus. She was rewarded for it with divine honours, which she was to enjoy for ever. In her sanctuary a perpetual fire was kept up, just as in the temple of Vesta. (Lactant. 1.20, 36; Serv. ad Aen. 8.190.) [L.S]

A sister of Cacus (q.v.), who, according to one version of the fable, became enamoured of Hercules, and showed the hero where her brother had concealed his oxen. For this she was deified. She presided over the excrements of the human body (cf. the verb cacare) and had a chapel (sacellum) at Rome, with a sacred fire continually burning in it, and virgins to perform her rites (Lactant. i. 20, p. 110, ed. Gall; Serv. ad Verg. Aen. viii. 190).