A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Coos, Cos, Cea, and Co, an island of the Ægean sea. See: [Co].

Copæ, a place of Greece, near the Cephisus. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 7.

Copais lacus, now Limne, a lake of Bœotia, into which the Cephisus and other rivers empty themselves. It is famous for its excellent eels. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 24.

Cophas, a son of Artabazus. Curtius, bk. 7, ch. 11.——A river of India. Dionysius Periegetes.

Cophontis, a burning mountain of Bactriana. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 106.

Copia, the goddess of plenty among the Romans, represented as bearing a horn filled with grapes, fruits, &c.

Copillus, a general of the Tectosagæ, taken by the Romans. Plutarch, Sulla.

C. Coponius, a commander of the fleet of Rhodes, at Dyrracchium, in the interest of Pompey. Cicero, bk. 1, de Divinatione, ch. 8.—Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 83.

Coprates, a river of Asia, falling into the Tigris. Diodorus, bk. 19.

Copreus, a son of Pelops, who fled to Mycenæ at the death of Iphitus. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 5.