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 698 COTINAE. town, on a river which some geographen take to be the TbjmbriuB. Cotiaeum was the birthplace of Alexander, the son of Aadepiades, a very learned grammarian. There are no remains of importance at KuUihijfah. In the Table the name is miswritten Cocleo. [G.L.] COTINAE (ai Karrl^w), a town of Hispania Baetica, fiunons for its mines of copper mixt with gold, lay somewhere in the range of mountains which border the vallej of the Baetis on the N. (Strab. iii. p. 142.) There seems no sufficient ground for the conjecture of Vossins (ad MeL iiL 1), identifying it with Oleastrum. [P. &] COTINUSSA. [Gadm.] COTTABANI (Karraeiyoi), a people of AnOna, to the east of the Omanitae, the modem Omdtiy ex- tending to the mountains of die Asabij at the entianoe to the Penian gulf. (Ptol. yi. 7.) They are re- ferred hj Forster to the Bem-Kahtanf or Joctanite family of Arabs, the classical name being merely an inversion of their well-lmown native appellation. {Arabia^ voL i. p. Ixxvi., vol. ii. p. 164.) [G. W.] COTTAEOBRI'OA. [Vettones.] COTTIAE ALPES. [Alpes, p. 107.] COTTIABA (KoTTM^ PtoL vlL 1. § 9), the chief city, according to Ptolemy, of the Aei, a tribe who occuped the lower part of the Peninsula of Hindoetan. It is probabl^ the same place which is mentioned by Pliny (vL 23. 26) under the names of Gottona or Gottooata, and firom which the best pepper was obtained, according to the author of the Periplut (p. 32). It has been supposed by some to be represented now by Cochmj Calicat^ or Tra- wmcore on the whole, CocAm is probably the most likely. [V.] COTTIABIS (Ptol. vu. 3. § 3; Marcian. p. 30), a river of Chma, at the southern end of that emjnre, on the banks of which lived, according to Ptolemy, the Aethioinan Icthyophagi. It is difficult to de- termine to what river tUs name ought to be re- ferred ; hence Mannert has conjectured that it is a river of Borneo, and Forbiger that it is the iSi» Kicmg^ the river of Canton, which, agreeably with this view, he imagines to be the same as the Gattigara of Ptolemy. This seems the best suggestion. [V.] GOTTONA. [CoTTiARA.] COTYLAEUM (KorvAcuoi'), a mountain in Euboea, at the foot of which Tamynae was situated. (Aeschin. in Ctenph. p. 480; Steph. B. «. v.) GOTY'LIUS. [Phioajlea.] GOTYLUS. [Ida.] GOTYOHA. (tA KorAwpa: Eth. Kummptrns, Steph. B. s. V.) and COTYOBUM (Plin. vi. 4), in Poiitus. According to Xenophon (^Anab. v. 5. § 4), a colony of Sinope, which furnished supplies for the Ten Thousand in their retreat. It was in the country of the Tibaxeni. The place was on the coast, and on a bay called after the town. Strabo (p. 548), where the name is written in a corrupt foim, speaks of it as a small place; and Arrian as a village, — which was owing to the neighbouring town of Phar- nacia being supplied with part of its population from it. The Maritime Itins. on this coast make the distance from Gotyoia to the river Melanthius 60 stadia. Hamilton {Retearckeij 4^ vol. i. p. 267) says : " Gotyora perhaps stood on the site of Ordou^ where some fomains of an ancient port cut out of the solid rock are still viable." But he remarks that some writers suppose that Gotyora was on the modem bay cf Penhembah, ** which is certainly more shel- tered than Ordouj and its distance fhnn the river GRAGU& Melanthius agrees better with the 60 stadia of. Arrian and the anonymous Periplus, than the site of Ordou." [G.L.] GOTYBTA (KoHffm: Etk. Korvpratos), a town in the S. of Laoonia, near the promootory Maka, which was garrisoned by the Lacedaemomam, along with Aphrodisias, in the PelopoDnesian War, in order to protect this part of the coast from the ravages of the Athenians, who had established themselves at Cythera. (Thuc. iv. 56 ; Steph. B. g. v.) GRAGUS (Kpttyos: Etk. Kpdeyun% a moon- tainous tnu^ in Lyda. Strabo (p. 665X wbose de- scription proceeds from west to east, after the pro- montory Telmissus, mentions Anticngus, on which is Garmylessus [Garmtlesbus], and then Giagns, which has eight summits (or he may mean capes), and a city of the same name. Pinara, in ^ in- terior, was at the base of Cragus. There are ooiDS of the town Gragus of the Roman imperial period, with Uie epigraph Amcuar Kp. or Kfw. or Kptey. The range of Anticngus and Gragus is represented in the map in Spratt and Forbes {L^cioy wcL ii) as running souUi from the neighbourhood of TelmiaBosi, and fanning the western boundary of the lower hteaa of the river Xanthos. The southern part is Cn^ns. The direction of the range shows that it must abut on the sea in bold headknds. In Beaufort's map of the coast of Karamania, the Anticngus is mari»d 6000 fiset high. Beaufort's examination of this coast b^an at " Yedy-Booro<M^ which means the Seven- Gapes, a knot of high and rugged mountains thst appear to have been the ancient Mount Gragus of Lyda." {Karwmama^ p. 1.) The ruins of I^oaxa are when Stnbo describeB them, on the east side of this range, about half way between Tehnissus and the termination of the range on the south ooasL There is a " pass leading between the summits of Gragus and Anticragus. Between the two chif€ pei^ is a plain 4000 fieet above the sea; and above it rises the highest peak of Gragus, more than 2500 feet above this elevated plain. The first half of the ascent from the plain is through a thick forest, and the remainder over bare rock. From the summit there is a view of the whole plain of Xanthus, and of the gorges of the Ifassicytus, which liea east of it The side towards the sea is so steep, that from this lofty summit the waves are seen breaking white against the base of this predpitous mountain mass." (Spratt's and Foriies's l^da, voL ii. p. 801.) It appean that Strabo is right when he describes a valley or depression as separating Anticngus and Gragus; and the highest part, which towera above the sea at the Seven Gapes, seems to be the cdght summits that Strabo speaks o£ There was a pro- montory Gragus, according to Scylax and Pliny (t. 27), which must be the Seven Gapes. The Hieim Acra of the Stadiasmus seems also to be the Seven Gapes. The position of the Gragus between Xanthus and Telmissus is mentioned by Mela (L 15), and he also probably means the same striking part of the range. It is observed, that " there is not m all Europe a wilder or grander scene than this pass through the Seven Gapes of Gragus." (Spratt and com or CJIAQU8.