Conetōdūnus and Cotuatus, two desperate Gauls, who raised their countrymen against Rome, &c.—Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 7, ch. 3.
Confluentes, a town at the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine, now Coblentz.
Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, as much honoured among his countrymen as a monarch. He died about 479 years B.C.
Congēdus, a river of Spain. Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 50, li. 9.
Coniăci, a people of Spain, at the head of the Iberus. Strabo, bk. 3.
Conimbrĭca, a town of Spain, now Coimbra of Portugal.
Conisaltus, a god worshipped at Athens, with the same ceremonies as Priapus at Lampsacus. Strabo, bk. 3.
Coniscī, a people of Spain.
Connīdas, the preceptor of Theseus, in whose honour the Athenians instituted a festival called Connideia. It was then usual to sacrifice to him a ram. Plutarch, Theseus.
Conon, a famous general of Athens, son of Timotheus. He was made governor of all the islands of the Athenians, and was defeated in a naval battle by Lysander, near the Ægospotamos. He retired in voluntary banishment to Evagoras king of Cyprus, and afterwards to Artaxerxes king of Persia, by whose assistance he freed his country from slavery. He defeated the Spartans near Cnidos, in an engagement, where Pisander, the enemy’s admiral, was killed. By his means the Athenians fortified their city with a strong wall, and attempted to recover Ionia and Æolia. He was perfidiously betrayed by a Persian, and died in prison, B.C. 393. Cornelius Nepos, De Viris Illustribus.—Plutarch, Lysander & Artaxerxes.—Isocrates.——A Greek astronomer of Samos, who, to gain the favour of Ptolemy Evergetes, publicly declared that the queen’s locks, which had been dedicated in the temple of Venus, and had since disappeared, were become a constellation. He was intimate with Archimedes, and flourished 247 B.C. Catullus, poem 67.—Virgil, Eclogues, poem 3, li. 40.——A Grecian mythologist in the age of Julius Cæsar, who wrote a book which contained 40 fables, still extant, preserved by Photius.——There was a treatise written on Italy by a man of the same name.