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694 C0BTCU3. ibroba, both Bt tigi e m mi cnltinUd; in anm tJw ia£i]D a coltJTBtod ; then Is bLh a csTt irhich cmtUDB m lirgv lonm, whjdi poors It lira of pun, pellocid ntar, bat iC unmadiaUly ikiu into the Mrth, and flowing nDda^roond taten ths >M : thcj all It th< Bitter Water. Mcli hM a long deflcription of Uui Auns pUa, spparentlj from the ume ■nthoritj llut Strsbo liJkiiral, bnt nun sn- bdlishsi. Tbis place b pnb^lr on tlu tap af the moDDtain abmre Corfctia, bnt it doas not appear ' 'jf.- ban bHTi namlned bf a^ modem traTelkr. Vf*l» (av CSr pine UiiuriT, ua £aa more imaginati than moat geogi^iben. This place ii famed in mjtliica] ttarj. It i> t Ciliciui caTB J Pindar (/yA. L 31), and of Ai ebjlns (Prom. VimeL 350), and the bed of lbs giant Trrboo or Tjpboeaa. (Uela, L 13.) 3. In Ljdia (Tbcto. liiL U, 33, 34 ; Ur. luri. At), a lofty moantiiin (Slnb. p. 644) in the pn- ninsola on which Eijthrse ia aituated. Capites, a port, waa at the baae of Corycua, which la tiow JEb- rafai or Karto. Tbia bold headland, called the Corjceon fromontaiiani (Plin. t. 39), looka to- vaida Samoa, and forma the westeni pant of the bar "D vhich Ten ia eltnated. This appeals to be the place which Thacjdidee calls Coiycos, in the tenitory of Erytbrae ; and tbie lopposlim Bgi««  wilb the moTemecU of the &et deecribed in riii. 34. It ia alio clurlj iodicBted in Livy's account of the moTeniBnts of the Bamane and Eumenes, though Liyj calli it a jTomonlory of the Teii. Xhit rngged CtJaat waa once inhabited bf a piratical people, called Coijiaei, who carried on Iheir Dade in a ejetematic manner, bj keeping epHs in the rarioiu porta, to find out wbat Ihe tnden had in their ahip;, and where they were bound to, and so aUacked them on the tea and robbed them. Hence came the prorob which Strabe mentiona (p.B44; comp. Steph. B., a. V. Katpwot, who qoetea the Aiia of Hecataeoa, and riles the pasaags of Strabe). [GAsYnro.] 4. In Pamphjlla near Attaleia. rATtALaiA, p. sai.s.] rcL.] CffKYCUS (Kj(.wfoi, Pld. iii. 17, fs : Gra- Au«), theUW. pnmonloiyaf CiBls. In Sirabo the name appears as Cimaros (Kljinpoi, a. p. 474). Elsenhen Strabo (iTii. n. 838) alaUa thai Coiycos was the point whence the dlilanees to the HTeral perte of Peloponneana were mcasuied: as Grabuta ends in two projecting prnnta, it ie probable ihat lbs W. point was called Cimaroe, the E. Coiycua. Wo kam from Phnj (ir. 20) that the isianda which lie off this promontorj wen c^led Corycae, and that part of the mass <£ rock which fonni Ihia point went by the name of Mount Coryena. Ptolemy (Lc) mendooa a city of Ihia name, and there is a pasaage in which jDvenal (iIt. 267) mentiou a Corydan vessel which evidaitly belonged to thii Cretan (own. When the Floieiitine trareller Bnondelmonte vialted the island in A. D. 14t5,hefonndremaineeaiBting. (Gornelioa, Creto Saera, toI. L p. 87 r Paehley, Tna. vol. iL p. 74i Hoeck, ffreta, toL I p. 377.) [E.B.J.] | COS. COKWALLkOiivitiiMa : EA. KafutnUefc), a rity of the Bhodii, acconlhig to Becataeus, qaoled by Stei^ianna (a D.). But it was not in Ebodee,wr was it one <^ the Bhodian poflaesnons in the Peraot [Cabia}. (Plin. T. 25 ; Plol. y. 3.) The Tabk marin Catydidla {CoridMi) on the rind frnn Hia- selia, in Lyda, to Palara, and ntakee the diitnia between theae two pbu«e 29 M. P. PUny (t. SS) piacca Coiydalla in the mterier of Lycia, aol Pto- lemy mmtims it with Bagalaaeua, Bhcdia, Pbdln^ Hyra, and other places, as shoot Hcoa Uasaicytaa. There ate coins of Gorydalla of the imperial period, with the epigraph KepiflaXAnir. It ia not difBcnlt to see wb«e thJa place ihonld be looked (a. The preeent site ia a Tillage called BadgieMi, od the eaet tide of a small stnam, about 16 miloa, diiect dittance,aanth-wat ofPhaealis. (SpcMt and Fodxa, Li/aa, ToL L p. 164.) Then wae discorend, in an old wall, " a sqoand block, with ile inecribed bea tonied towards the ttmes, on which, in benntifully preeerred letlere, wae the name of the city — Coty- dalla." There are at Cocydilla Ihe ronauia of «  email thes^e, of a Homan aqueduct, and a maaaiTe Hellenic wall. The insoiptico copied fnan Coiydilla (red. ii. p. 277) is of the time of H. Amtlins Ants' ninns; and it ehowg that C(rydalla had the osoal Onek conetitotioa, ■ senate and a pi^nlar body.- PUny mentJOBi Gagae, Gorydalla, and BhodiopoUn, in this order; and Rhodiopolia waa fbnnd bf ^ntt and Forbea near Corrdalla. [G. L.] CORYDALLUS. [AmcA, p. 325.] CORYLEIUM (KapUfiu: Elk. KnfieAFirfi), aoccrding to Stephanos (a. e.) a nrtad Cone in paphlagonia, ao called from a king Coiylaa. It dees not appear wbat is the authority of fitephanu, Xenopbon (Anab. tII. § S) DienlionB Corybs as tba king of Paphlagonia at the tune when be p throngh the coantry. CORYNE. [Ehtthrae.] COSYPHANTA, a tewn ui Bithyma, mnttiaoed by FUny (t. 33) so a ptocethat ono existed. [G.L.] CORYPHANTIS {Kopn^wrd ; £U. Coryphao- tenus), one of Ihe Httlementa of the Uytilenaeuis, on the coaat of Aeolis, oppoeile to Lcebos, and lurtia of Atameua. Pliny (v. 30) names it Corn^iBa. It ie evidently the same place which a^ieare in tba Table under the name Coriftnio, between Adramyt- tinm and Elatia, — whalever Elalia may mean. SInbo (p. 607) menlims Coiyphands and Uenclea, and "after them, Attea." [AlTBA.] The next plaoa in Ihe Table to ElatiaiaAitalia. The oyeten of Co- rypbas an menlioned by Plinj (lUiL 6). [G.L.1 CORYPHA'SIUM. [Pvlbb.] CORYTHEIS. [Tboba.] COS(K«i, K^t;Cae,P. Melaj Cone, Uv., Tac ; Ctt, Plin.: EA. Kwt (KirnTf in modem Greek): ' 0, ur StmcKie, a eornptioD of h tcU K£), an in the Myrtoan ae&, " one of the most lenownei] t beauiifnl chain, which covers the weaten sbnv of Asia Hinor." One of ile earlier names was Ufnpaa (Thuc viiL 41), another waa NyrnjJiaea (Plin. w. 31. B. 36). It appean from an inacriptioo mat- tioned by Ron, that it was called Lango in the tinm □f the Knights. Its eitnalion ie nearly qipoeke tba " f HalicamassUB, and it ie sefauiled by a nar- rait from Cnidos and the Triifian j^vaaoiarj. Its length lies KE. and SW. Strabe ^TCS the namM . of three promontories, Scandarinm en the NEL, Lacter oa the g. (with the town of Halisanui near it), and Dncaaon on the W. (neu Ihe town <t Sto- malimne). Its principal d^, bearing the name of s be r**T^