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 COUANA. »I»- CImd, • ml OB Otjmpaa, a friend oT H. Antoiiiu, dacrUd '. in the wir that tiultd in the bitlle of Actiun], ud toOcUni I, priot of him. In addition to Ihe pfuaClmod of Zaa AbntUDiui, Caesu gtj» him the rich plica It Gomuii. But be only held thi) ^nfenitent one month, having A'ud of an acuta dueaae, bnmght on bj CICCH, or the anger of the goddes). it is Dot cvnain which, though th« miniiteni of die tempi* altribuied it to tiie goddtsa. Within the circuit of the sacred groond (n'^urrii} were ibe reeidence* of the prieat and the pri^leu, and among titHer nilca for Kcnnng the purity of the place, it waa forbidden to nt iwine'a flesh within the eacred encioeun ; indeed, no pig waa allnwed to come within the citj. 'i'lie rubber priest, who hjd been accnetomed to eat twine'i Oeah in the foresle 1/ Oljmpna, biutie the rule iniinediit«lj on entering on his new dSce ; and it was Buppoeed that liia apeedj death wa> Ibe OOD- Bi|iienca uf it. (Stinbo, p.575.) In Stnbo'a time Djteatua wat high-priect of Comma. He was the un of Adiatorii, a Galatian chief, whom Oclavianiu Caeur eihibited m hie triumplial promeion after the baUle of Actiom. Adiatoric waa guiltjr of the crime of having been on Ills «de of M. Antouiui 1 and accordingl]' Caesar, alter hi) triumph, g>v» crdeni to put tn death the chief, and hii eldeat ton. Bnt the gecond lun per- uated in declaring to the execntioner that he was Blionhl die. Their purcnti indnced liie elder to yielil, and thai the younger died ui hii ploat. Caesar, un hearing this, rewarded tiie eldest son with the priwthood of Ccimina. Tbua wo haie a Gaul in the Uai of the prieita of Conuna. Comana wae populoua. At the prooeaaione of the goddeu, her iiilai, aa Strabo calla Ihem, there waa a great concourse of people from the towns and country aJ] around, men and women. The popu- lation was aleo increaaed by people the goddcM. The people were font their lands prodund plenty of wine. The number of pmatituloi in Comana waa lii^e, mot of whom belonged to the temple. So it was, saye Strabo, a kind of little Corinth, where people, merchanta and tdoftbi' OOUABIA. which, be otaerrca, ccntaiied HdiltK, near tbi Euphntea. Comina was in Cataonia m the Aoti' (aurus (&tnba, p- 521), in a deep Talley; the Hva fania flowed throngh the city. It is gomJIj anppoeed that the modem town of Al-Bottan. m the Siimm or Sanii, is on or Mar the site of tlu Comana. Al-BoMlaii is utuited in a fine |Uo, weil watered, and well cultivated ; and ii a ton if BOOO or 9000 inhabitants Here na the temple of Enyo. a> Strabo (p. 535) nama the goddeiL h contained a great number of peraona devoted to the worship of the deity, and a gnat nnmber of bit- roduli. The inbalulanta wen Cataonians. Tbt; (uknowledged the aupronicy of the king of Cip- padocia, but were under the immediate jnrisdictiia of the prieal. Tbie priest was chiefly (tI rtw, whatever that means) master of the temple and ct the liietolali, who, at the time of Strabo's riilt, nn above 6000, men and women. The temple pootsBel large enlales, the produce of which was enjoyed bv the priest, who waa next in rank to the king, lod the priest wai generally a member of the nnil family. It was too good a thing to give loan; body else. There was a tnidi^OR that Orestes. *itli bo lister, bmuKbt fnnn Tauric Scytbia the sarmi riia of tbie lanple, which were llioee of Tanrofolgi Artemis. Here Oiestes depoeited the hair thU ix cut from his bead to commemonte the en) of Ui sufleringa (ii rinBiffot ai^ij), and hence, accoidiii; to an alieurd etymology of the Greeks, came t^ name of the place, Comana. And in lata- timn. lo make tbo name suit the absurd story belter, as it waa supposed, it was changed to i) tUpnri. (EuJ- Uth. ad Dionys. v, 694 ; Piocgp. 7'erric. i. 17.) This deity of Comana is luppased to have bra called Ma in the language of the caunfry, and to ht the moon.goddos, as in Caria the moon.god vii wonihipped under the name of Uen. The pasMira in Strabo,. ., tA lUfiana, mi t1 rqi 'Enmi iip)' t imlroi Kdwva OKi^ifeiKri, — so JC standi inCi- Mubon'g lejt, — is certainly rormpl. We onma suppnse that Stiabo means to say that Ihey call tbt temple of Envo by the name of Comana. Groikuid observes (Trnnsl. Stmbo, vol. ii. p. **9), that .bHi Hirtius (^De BrlL Altx. c. 66) says: " Venil Co- manu, sand issi mum in Cappadocia Bellonai 1™- !^tnibo*s text by this passage. It appears thil moat of the M^. of Strabo have Ha in pliR of Ki/iara, and Grmkurd proposes to read Hal wi'b Koray. Acconlingly the latter part of the {■»!£< Gcwkurd is, h - -■- ■ '■ ■ ■ ituvii Mi . a. owiMT"- iclined to resd ^ n colony after tie IS Pins 1 butCaiaolls 3. In Cafpadocu (t4 KSfiara ifli Kaawo- tsKlaOt ^u >^ "l''^ Chryse, or the golden, AS nppean from one of the NovelhiB of Justi- nian {.Vor. 31. c. 1), to distinguish it from the other, which is also named Chryse." It was in the diviaion which he named the Third Armenia, ind colony in the lime of Aiit also called Antoninus, ana itiu may ee ih le of Cramer's mistake, if it is one. the tdm have the epignifdis Col, Aug. Comana; and CoL lul. Aug. Comauenoru, or Comaioum. >fr [G. Lj COMANIA (KojiUFla), a place only mewiond by Xenophon (Aimb. vii, 8, § IS), It appears to be DOC fu from Pergamnm in the basin of lb* Calcui. [G.L,] COMARIA (Ka/iap!", PtoL »ii. 1. f 9), accord- ig to rtolemy, a promontory and town in ihe S. part of India intra Gangfjru There can be little doubt that this name is preserved in that of Ci^ Cimorai, the moat iouthera cape of the poiinipls " Uiadoatan., [V.J