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Rh 824 CONCOLERUS. CONCORDIA. 1. (XVIII.) Manuel, Emperor, horn 13G4, Caesar 1376 ; suc- ceeded his father 1390 (?) ; submitted to Timur ; died 1412; married Eudoxia, daugh- ter of David, king of Georgia. (XIX.) Alexis IV., Emperor ; I I I 2. Eudoxia, married Ja- 3. Anna, 4. A daughter, tines or Zetines, a Turkish married married Tahar- emir, and after his death BagratVI., tan or Zahra- John V. Palaeologus, king of tan, emir of Emperor of Constanti- Georgia. Arsinga. nople. married a Cantacuzenian princess. succeeded his father in 1412; murdered between 1445 and 1449 j (XX.) 1. Joannes IV. (Calo- Joannes), Emp.; deposed and killed his father between 1445 and 1449; paid tribute to the Turks; died 1458 ; married a daughter of Alex- ander, king of Ibe- I 2. Alexander, married a daughter of Gatteluzzi, prince of Lesbos. A Son, whose life was spared bv Mohammed li. 4. Mfiria, married John VII. Palaeolo- gus, em- peror of Constan- tinople. 3, (XXII.) David, the last Emperor of Trebizond; seized the crown from his nephew Alexis V. in 1458 ; married 1. Maria Theodora, of the house of the Theodori, princes of Gothia in the Crimea ; 2. Helena (Irene), daughter of Matthaeus, and grand- daughter of John VI. Cantacuzenus, emperor of Constantino- ple ; deposed by Sultan Mohammed II. in 1462; exiled with his family to Serres, near Adrianople ; put to death with nearly all his cliildren by order of the Sultan, probably in 1466. 5. A daughter married a Tur- koman emir in Persia. 6. A daughter; married George Brancowic7,,kr;il (king) of Servia. I (XXI.) 1. Alexis v., born 1454; succeeded his father 1458 ; deposed in the same year by his uncle David ; put to death by Sultan Mohammed II. after 1462. 2. A daughter, married Nicolo (!respo, duke of the Arch ipehigo. .1 3. Catharina, married Usun Hasaji, Emir of Diyarbekr, Sultan of Mesopotamia. I 1 — 7. Seven sons, put to death with their father at Adrianople. A branch of the Comnenian family became ex- | tinct at Rome in 1551 ; another branch flourished in Savoy, and became extinct in 1784. Demetrius Comnenus, a captain in the French army, whose descendants are still alive, pretended to be de- scended from Nicephorus, one of the sons of the last emperor of Trebizond, David, whose life, ac- cording to him was spared by Mohammed, and his parentage and name were recognized by letters- patent of Louis XVI., king of France. But his claims will hardly stand a critical examination, notwithstanding many so-called authentic docu- ments which he published in a rather curious work, " Precis historique de la Maison Imperiale des Comnenes, avec Filiation directe et reconnue par Lettres-Patentes du Roi du mois d'Avril, 1782, depuis David, dernier empereur de Trebizonde, jusqu' a Dfuietrius Comnene," Amsterdam, 1784, 8vo. (Fallinerayer, Gcschiclde des Kaiserthums vo7i Trapezunt.) [W. P.] COMUS (Kcujuo?), occurs in the later times of antiquity as the god of festive mirth and joy. He was represented as a winged youth, and Philo- stratus {Icon. i. 2) describes him as he appeared in a painting, dnink and languid after a repast, his head sunk on his breast; he was slumbering in a standing attitude, and his legs were crossed. (Hirt, Mt/thol. Bilderb. ii. p. 224.) [L. S.] CONCO'LERUS {KoyKoXfpos), the Greek name of Sardanapalus. (Polyb. Fragm. ix.) Other forms of the name are KovoaKoyKShopos (see Suid. 5. V.) and QiavocTKoyKoK^^ios. [E. E.] 3. George, the youngest ; said to have adopted the Mohammedan religion ; his life was spared, but his fate is doubtful. 9. Anna, her life was spared ; she married a Turkish chief. CONCOLITA'NUS {Y^oyKoXhavos), a king of the Gallic people called Gaesati, and colleague of Aneroestus, together with whom he made war against the Romans, b. c. 225. [Aneroestus.] In the battle in which they were defeated, Conco- litanus was taken prisoner. (Polyb. ii. 31.) [E. E.] CONCO'RDIA, a Roman divinity, the personi- fication of concord. She had several temples at Rome, and one was built as early as the time of Furius Camillus, who vowed and built it in com- memoration of the reconciliation between the patri- cians and plebeians. (Plut. Cam. 42 ; Ov. Fast. i. 639.) This temple, in which frequent meetings of the senate were held, but which appears to have fallen into decay, was restored by Livia, the wife of Augustus, and was consecrated by her son, Tiberius, a. d. 9, after his victory over the Panno- nians. (Suet. Tib. 20; Dion Cass. Iv. 17.) In the reign of Constantino and Maxentius, the temple was burnt dovn, but was again restored. A second temple of Concordia was built by Cn. Flavius on the area of the temple of Vulcan (Liv. ix. 46, xl. 1 9 ; Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 6), and a third was vowed by L. Manlius during a seditious commotion among his troops in Gaul, and was afterwards erected on the Capitoline hill. (Liv. xxii. 33.) Concordia is represented on several coins as a matron, sometimes standing and sometimes sitting, and holding in her left hand a cornucopia, and in her right either an olive branch or a patera. (Comp. Ov. Fast. vi. 91 ; ^'arr. L. L. v. 73, ed. Miiller ; Cic. de Nat. Dear. ii. 23 ; Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. ii. p. 108.) f L. S.]