Cnidinium, a name given to a monument near Ephesus.
Cnidus and Gnidus, a town and promontory of Doris in Caria. Venus was the chief deity of the place, and had there a famous statue made by Praxiteles. Horace, bk. 1, ode 30.—Pliny, bk. 36, ch. 15.
Cnopus, one of the descendants of Codrus, who went to settle a colony, &c. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Cnossia, a mistress of Menelaus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 11.
Cnossus, or Gnossus, a town of Crete, about 25 stadia from the sea. It was built by Minos, and had a famous labyrinth. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 27.
Co, Coos, and Cos, now Zia, one of the Cyclades, situate near the coasts of Asia, about 15 miles from the town of Halicarnassus. Its town is called Cos, and anciently bore the name of Astypalæa. It gave birth to Hippocrates, Apelles, and Simonides, and was famous for its fertility, for the wine and silkworms which it produced, and for the manufacture of silk and cotton of a beautiful and delicate texture. The women of the island always dressed in white; and their garments were so clear and thin, that their bodies could be seen through, according to Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, fable 9. The women of Cos were changed into cows by Venus or Juno; whom they reproached for suffering Hercules to lead Geryon’s flocks through their territories. Tibullus, bk. 2, poem 4, li. 29.—Horace, bk. 1, satire 2, li. 101.—Strabo, bk. 14.—Pliny, bk. 11, ch. 23.—Propertius, bk. 1, poem 2, li. 2; bk. 2, poem 1, li. 5; bk. 4, poem 2, li. 23.—Ovid, Ars Amatoria, bk. 2, li. 298.
Coamani, a people of Asia. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 2.
Coastræ, and Coactræ, a people of Asia near the Palus Mæotis. Lucan, bk. 3, li. 246.
Cobares, a celebrated magician of Media, in the age of Alexander. Curtius, bk. 7, ch. 4.
Cōcălus, a king of Sicily, who hospitably received Dædalus, when he fled before Minos. When Minos arrived in Sicily, the daughters of Cocalus destroyed him. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 261.—Diodorus, bk. 4.