Cotyora, a city of Asia Minor, founded by a colony from Sinope. Diodorus, bk. 14.
Cotys, the father of Asia. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 45.——A son of Manes by Callirhoe, who succeeded his father on the throne of Mæonia.——A king of Thrace. Cornelius Nepos, Iphicrates.——Another, who favoured the interest of Pompey. He was of an irascible temper. Lucan, bk. 5, li. 54.——Another, king of Thrace, who divided the kingdom with his uncle, by whom he was killed. It is the same to whom Ovid writes from his banishment. Tacitus, bk. 2, Annals, ch. 64.—Ovid, bk. 2, Epistulæ ex Ponto, ltr. 9.——A king of the Odrysæ. Livy, bk. 42, ch. 29.——A king of Armenia Minor, who fought against Mithridates, in the age of Claudius. Tacitus, Annals, bks. 11 & 13.——Another, who imagined he should marry Minerva, and who murdered some of his servants who wished to dissuade him from expectations so frivolous and inconsistent. Athenæus, bk. 12.
Cotytto, the goddess of all debauchery, whose festivals, called Cotyttia, were celebrated by the Athenians, Corinthians, Thracians, &c., during the night. Her priests were called Baptæ, and nothing but debauchery and wantonness prevailed at the celebration. A festival of the same name was observed in Sicily, where the votaries of the goddess carried about boughs hung with cakes and fruit, which it was lawful for any person to pluck off. It was a capital punishment to reveal whatever was seen or done at these sacred festivals; and it cost Eupolis his life for an unseasonable reflection upon them. The goddess [♦]Cotytto is supposed to be the same as Proserpine or Ceres. Horace, epode 17, li. 58.—Juvenal, satire 2, li. 91.
[♦] ‘Corytto’ replaced with ‘Cotytto’
Cragus, a woody mountain of Cilicia, part of mount Taurus, sacred to Apollo. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 645.—Horace, bk. 1, ode 21.
Crambūsa, a town of Lycia.
Cranai, a surname of the Athenians, from their king Cranaus. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 44.
Cranapes, a Persian, &c. Herodotus.
Cranaus, the second king of Athens, who succeeded Cecrops, and reigned nine years, B.C. 1497. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 2.——A city of Caria. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.
Crane, a nymph. See: [♦]Cara.——A town of Arcadia.