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

Cosingas, a Thracian priest of Juno, &c. Polyænus, bk. 7, ch. 22.

Cosis, a brother to the king of Albania, killed by Pompey. Plutarch, Pompey.

Cosmus, an effeminate Roman. Juvenal, satire 8.

Cossea, a part of Persia. Diodorus, bk. 17.

Cossus, a surname given to the family of the Cornelii.——A Roman who killed Volumnius king of Veii, and obtained the Spolia Opima, A.U.C. 317. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 841.

Cossutii, a family of Rome, of which Cossutia, Cæsar’s wife, was descended. Suetonius, Cæsar, ch. 1. One of the family was distinguished as an architect about 200 B.C. He first introduced into Italy the more perfect models of Greece.

Costobœi, robbers in Galatia. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 34.

Cosȳra, a barren island in the African sea near Melita. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 3, li. 567.

Cotes and Cottes, a promontory of Mauritania.

Cothon, a small island near the citadel of Carthage, with a convenient bay which served for a dock-yard. Servius on Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 431.—Diodorus, bk. 3.