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 643 COELE. writer who plaops the Coela on the eastern side of the island; all other ancient writers sappoee them to have heen on the western coast. (Liv. xxzi. 47 ; Val. Max. L 8. § 10; Locan, r. 196, 230.) The Persian fleet most ther^ore have sailed roond the promontoiy of Geraestos before they were overtaken bj the storm. (Groskard and Knuner, ad Strab. L c) COELE. [Attica, p. 302, b.] COELESYRIA. [Syria.] GOELE'TAE, a Thracian people, divided into majoret and nuaoreSf the former of whom dwelt at the foot of Mount Haonus, and the latter about Mount Bhodope. (Plin. iv. 18; Liv. zxzviii. 40; Tac. Afm. iii. 38.) The district which thej inha^ bited was called CodeHca, [L. S.] COELOS, COELA, COELLl, or CELA (Koihs Ai/iV, KoiXo, KoiAla), a port-town in the Thracian ChecBonesus on the Hellespont, near which the Spartans were defeated by the Athenians, and where the latter erected a trophy by the side of the tomb of Hecuba. (Mela, ii. 2. 7; Plin. iv. 18, Ptol. iii. 12. § 4 ; Nicet v. p. 81 ; Anna Conm. xiv. p. 429 ; Amm. Marc. xxii. 8 ; Hierocl. p. 634.) There still exist coins of the town of Coeloe, respecting which see Eckhel, voL iL p. 50. Its modem name is Ki- lidbakr. [L. S.J COENOPHRU'BIUM, a town on the Thracian coast of the Prop(«tis, on the road from ApoUonia to Selymbria ; in it the emperor Aurelian was mur- dered in A. D. 275. (Eutrop. ix. 9 ; Vopisc Awrel. 35 ; Itin. Ant. pp. 138, 230, 322, where the place is called Cenophrurium.) It is generally identified with the modem Bivadot, [L. S.) COENYRA. [Thascs.] COEQUOSA. [CocoaA.] COETAE (Koitox), are mentioned by Xenophon at the end of the Anabasis (vii. 8. § 25) among the nations that the Ten Thousand passed through. They axe mentioned between the Mossynoeci and the Tibareni. The name does not occur in any other part of the work, nor elsewhere. [G. L.] COEUS. [pAMisua.] COGAEONUM (Kceyau»yop), a mountain in the district of the Getae, which, from its connection with the legend of Zamobds, was considered sacred. A river bearing the same name was in its neighbour- hood. (Strab. vii. p. 298.) Neither the mountain nor the river can be identified, as it is uncertain whether we should look for them in the E. Carpa- thians or in the earlier settlements of the Getae, S. of the Ister. (Comp. Scha&rik, Slavische AUer- thutny vol. i. p. 489.) [E. B. J.] COGAMUS. [Hkbmus.] COLACEIA (KoKMC(ia% a town in Malis of un- certain site. (Theopomp. ap. Athen. vi. p. 254, f.) COLA'NIA, in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as one ot the cities of the Damnii, to the NE. of the Selgovae (Solu>ay). Identified with Carstair»y and with Crawfurd, [Coria.] [R. G. L.] CCLAPIS, a river in the country of the lapodes, in Pannonia, the district about the month of which was occupied by the tribe called Colapiard. (Strab. pp. 207, 214 ; Plin. iiL 28.) Dion Cassius calls the river Coiop9 (xlix. 38, its modem name is Kidpd)^ and, according to Strabo, it flowed from the Alps, and having, in its course, become navigable, emptied itself into the Savus near Siscia or Se- gestica. [L. S.] COLCHI INDIAE (K<JAxot, Periplifor. JFryiAr. p. 33 ; Tab. Pouting. Colchis Indorum; K^Axw ^/a- f ^toK, Ptol. tU. 1. § 10), a port on the Makbar COLCHIS. coast, to the KE. of the present Cape Comorin^ hi that subdivision of India which the ancients called India intra Ganffenu According to Ptdemy (viL 1. § 10) it gave its name to a gulf which was called Uie KoAwb; KoAxtwiSs. Its present repre- sentative has not been determined ; but the pQuti<Hi is sufficiently identified by the description of tha neighbouring coast, which was and is celebrated for its pearl fisheries. Dr. Vincent, in his Commentary on the Periplus (vol. ii. p. 444), has shown that near it, on the northern shore of Ceylon, was the island of Epiodorus (now the island of Mamaar'y, and one of the most celebrated seats of the pearl fisheries. It is not improbable that many other names which are mentioned in the immediate neigh- bourhood, as Colias, Prom. Coliacum, Cooiaci (Km- yuucol, Strab. xv. p. 689), are really connected with that of ColchL Indeed, the text of the Periplus is so corrupt, that it is difficult to have &ith in tiie emendations even of the very learned men who have made it their study. (Vincent. Periphu of Efy- thraean Sea^ vol. iL ; AsuUic Retearche*^ vol. v. p. 395.) [V.] COXCHICUS SINUS. [Colohi Indiae.] COLCHIS (n KoAx^r : Eth, KoKx^ : A^. KoAxuc^s), a district of western Asia bounded on the SW. by the province of Pantos, from which it was separated by the river Phasis, on the W. bj the Pontus Euxinus as far aa the river Ccvmx, on the N. by the chain of the Caucasus, which lay between it and Asiatic Sarmada, on the E. by Iberia and Mts. Moscfaici, and on the S. by Armenia. There is some little difierence in authors as to the extent of the country westward : thus Stralw (so. p. 498) makes Colchis b^n at Trapezus, whik Ptolemy, on the other hand, extends Pontus tc the river Phasis. It may be gathered from Stoib. xi. p 497; Plin. vi. 5. s. 5; Theodor. HitL EecL v. 34 ; Pxocop. B. G, iv. 4 ; Zosim. i. 32, that PityiU was Uie last town to the S. in Colchis, and frotn Strabo, /. c, Arrian Peripl. p. 1 1. (ed. Hods.); Mela, i. 19; Ammian. xxii. 15; Ptol. v. 10; that the posi- tion of Dioscurios (which, according to Arrian and some other writera, was subsequently called Sebas-. topolis) was in the northern part of Colchis, and distant from Pityus, according to Strabo 366, and according to Arrian 350 stadia. The <nder of the tribes on this eastern coast of the Euxine was according to Strabo, and commencing from the N., the Zygi, Heniochi, Cercetae, Moschi and Colchi ; it would, however, appear that the whole district po- pularly known as Colchis occupied the greater part of the territory on which these smaller tribes or sub- divisions of people were settled ; and may, therefore, as stated, be considered roughly to extend from Trapezus to Dioscurias. The district comprehends the modem provinces of Mingrelia and part of Ab- basla, south and west of Mt Elburx. Aeschylus and Pindar appear, to be the earliest authors who have given to this land its historical name of Colchis. The earlier writers c«ily speak of it under the name of Aea, the residence of the mythical king Acetes. The inhabitants, called Colchi, were aocording to the opinion of Herodotus (ii. 104, 105) and Diodonts (i. 28) the remains of the army <^ Sesostris, and therefore of Egyptian origin. Herodotus argues that the people of Colchis were the relics (tf this army, because of the many customs which were similar to them and to the Egyptians, and not iu use originally in other nati<Mis, as the rite of or- cumdaion, aind the working of linen (which th^