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 COSA. 699 697), wu S50 lUdU, u 100 BcHun inilcv; but i gngdiical miles, mnd tin length thoal H3. Tbe re- lUion rf Cob to ths noghboaring cout and iiluida ia vividl; UlnstnUd bj aacb Tojigca ms tboM which (re described in Liv. luiii. 16; Locui. Tiii. 244 — ISO; Aet. ApoM. XI. iiL TnditioD CDiuiftcti the eu-lkat Gred iah^Hluiti <if Ca with n migmtioD fnim Epdaunu ; and the ewnnKHi worahip rf Aeicnlaiaiui seemi to haye uuiti- taiued a Ihik between the two down to a UM peiind. <PHaa,iiL93. 5 4; MlUler, i)or. bIc.lcb.E.) Ia Uomo w« End the people of the iiltad figbtiug ■gaiont the Cariaiu. (H ii. 677, 867.) As we appmach the period of distinct history, the aty of Coa appeaia ai a member ct the Donu Feotapolis, wbrM wnrtnaij was on the TriojoiD pRmiciitory, (Herod. L lU.) Under the Atbsnian mla it had no walla, and it waa fint fbrtifiad bj Alcibiadea (t the ckM of the Pelopimiiemaii War. (Tbnc riit. 108) In SDbaequent times it Bbar«d Ibe freneral &ta cf the neighbouring ccaits and inlaiida. For its nUtioDs with Bhodei in Ibe wan B^^aiast Antiodmi and the Kemana, aee PolTb. six. 7 1 and Livy, L c. Tbe onpcTor Ckodina beatowed npoo it tlM pciii- legMliBeitate(Tu..la>.iii.61), and Anto- mniia Fina i^nilt ttw dCy, after it biid beat de- atqjred b; an eaTtbqnake. (Pana. Till 48). The ancicut coalJtndQii erf the island aeeme to bare beeji mcdarchical, and tracee of isYnpai was iUnstriooa as the tdrtbplace of PloleDij Phila- delphos (Tbeoc nil. 57), and of the piuLter A|jcllee, and the ph^ndan Hippocmlei. An intereating in- acription (BDckh, No. 2502) asKidalea it with Herod the tatnrch, wboae falber bad confened man; b- Toon on Co, u we learn tnxa Jtcephns (£. J. Lai.§ii> Tbe pneent miied popolatioD <i Gredcs aod Tmka wnooata to aboat 8000. The island atiU giTSB pnnf 1^ the natural prodnctiTenea wbicb waa calebisled bj Stiabo. It waa knmn tn the cdd wmld fir its ointment and pnrpje dja, but eapedally IbritawineB{aor.&l.iL4,29i Pera.5atT.13S), ^, and the light ^anaparent dreaaes called "^ Coae f^n .s -^Veets." (TibolL iL 3. S3 ; Propert L 3.) The y ''■'L.o ialand is generallj moantuiama, eepeciallj on the aoath and weM : but (Lera is a lai^ tract of level and fruitfol ground towarda the north and east. Tbe moat ancient capital was called Aatjpalaea, the pceiCim of which is eitremel; doubtfiiL Tbe cily of Cue itadf has conlinaed lo our own titnie. An onhealchj lagoon, on the north of the modem town, ■narks the pcnitioa of the ancient barbonr. Cloae to it is the Torkisb castle, which Cbrislian InTcllsn are not allowed to enter. In its walk are some ekbo- rate acalptnrea, which amy perhaps bare belonged to 1 the AsUf^umuvtempleif Aeeculatiins. Thissanc- / luat^R^^attI<r the cigtct of greatest intareit in ' the island. A achoo] of pbjaicians was atlacbed to I it, and its gnat collection of votive models made it slmoet a miuenm of anatomy and pattacdogy. of the town : bat ib^ site haa not bMU jet poai- tinlj identified. ,^, .- ■ - v ■ ;;, ; « —'rfCoiWiU be found in Ctarira's TVo- l^ToLii. pt.ii. ppbSai— 333. But the beet description lain Boar, Keum nach Kot, BaUearmiaat, h.s.v. (H^le, 185a), irilb which bis Rtitm m/rfnt Griech. In- lebt ^onld be canjsred, toI. ii. ]>p. S6 — 93, vol. iii. pp. 126— 139. There ia a monognph on the island by Elisler (De Co Innda, Halle, 1B33), and a very nsefoi [Bper on the subject by Col. Leake {in the IVoiu. d/ lAa AiyoJ Soc. o/LitenUun. vol. i., se- cond stria). Both Leake and Koea give a map of Coe, reduced from the recent sarrey; but for full information, the Admiralty Charts ehonid be con- anlted. Of these, No. 1604 eihibiu the sitnalion of the town and the nndetead in their relation to ihe opposite cout; No. ISSO showa the toitn in dMail, with a view of it &om the anchorage ; and No. 1B98 giTca a general delineation of the whole island. See also No. 1899. With these chaita it is desirable to coDifanPnrdj's&ulnf I>tr«tar)r,p.ll4. [J.S.U.] COSA v COSSA. l.<IUTviu,Stnb.PloL:£a. Coaanns; A%ieitmi(i) a dty of Etraria, ailuated on the sea-coast between the Partus Hercnlia and Grs- viscae ; immediately a4janing the soatbemmiist of Uie two nocks of aand which connect the lfoBie.^r^ gaOaro with the main land. [Aroemtaiuub UoHB.] It is mentioned by Ifirpl {Am, i. 167) among Uie cidee anppoaed to have tumiahed aujilia- liM to Aeneai against Ueientiiii, bnt thia is the only intimation we SbA of ita having been in very early tinxa a [dace of eoosideratioD : there ia no authority fir the BDppoaitien t£ boom writara who woold rank it amiRig ue twelve ditaa of the Etnucan League. Plinjr apcaka (< it aa a d^tendtocy of Void, from which it «M coly SO milea diatant <Coaa Volden- linin,PIaLiiL5. s,8);andthoDgh tbiamayapplyto the time of the author, it is certain that we find no eridence of its having ever been an bdependeot city : indeed ita name appenra fur the Gist time in hiatoiy in B.C. 373, when a B«nan colony waa established there (Uv. Ept. liv.; VelL Pat. i. U). Tbia atatement haa been r^aided by Uadvig and Monmi- een aa rejarring to Gca in Lncania (see Mo. 2), hot that appean to hafe been alwaya an obecnre place, and Zumpt is certainly correct in referring the Reman colonj to the Etmacan Coaa. Aa the Romans bad trinmphed over the Volcientea only aeven jears bifore (FaaL Capit.), it waa natiual ennigb that they ahonld aeck to ealablish thor power in this part of Etmria by planting a odonj in thur lenilory. (Uadvig, de CobM. p. 998 ; Uommsen, Rom. MmamaaH, p. 333 ; Znmpt, dt Colo*, p. 357.) In the Secixid Panic War Cosa was one of the Bghtaen coloaies which were still able and ready to fumiah tbdr required qnota of anpplies (Liv. uvii. )0) ; bnt it sesms mvcrthelcas to bava soSeied severdy ban the war, eo that in B.C. 199 we find the Cceani pctitMning fiir a rdnlcroemciit of eokaiista. Tbsir reqnM was at fint re&aed, but granted thn* jMn afivwaldt, wlun 1000 new oolnutfa