Origin of Mythology. 213 



4iian of clistinGtion, in the Consulship of Quintus Fulvius 

 and L. Manlius, in the same century.* 



Strabo mentions Cothus among the names of distinc- 

 tion which were in use among the barbarians of Thrace. f 



Tacitus, in the second book of his Annals, gives an 

 account of Cotys, a king of Thrace, in the reign of Tibe- 

 rius ; the same prince to whom Ovid addressed a letter, 

 while in exile at Tomos.J 



A prince of the same name is mentioned by Tacitus, 

 in the reign of Claudius. 



Tacitus also mentions a Cotys^ a king of the lesser Ar- 

 menia, about the middle of the first century of the Chris- 

 tian Era.^ 



In the reigii of Augustus, a prince named Cottiiis, go- 

 verned a country on the Alps ; and a particular ridge of 

 those mountains, under the name of Cottian, long pre- 

 served the history of the prince and his dominion. i| 



Cluver informs us that the Persian name of the Supreme 

 Being is Chod; but I question his inference that this is the 

 Thoth of the Egyptians. I take the Persian Chod^ to be 

 the German and English God; the Godama or giant Go- 

 da^ of the Burman Empire ; and perhaps all the titles of 

 princes before mentioned, were derived from a common 

 source. 1[ 



This word, w^ithout the Greek termination, Cot, Chad, 

 God, or Got, seems clearly to have descended from the 

 Cothus of Hesiod, or Cuth. 



Dionysius, the geographer, in a passage cited by Pel- 

 lutier, relates that the Phenicians called Gadeira, Gades, 

 now Cadiz, Gottinhus, the house of Goden. The primi- 

 tive inhabitants called it Cotifuisa, the house or tempk 

 of Cotys.^^ 



* Liv. lib. xlii. 29— lib. xl. 57. t Strabo, lib. vii. ca, T. 



% Tacit. An. lib. ii. 64, 66— -Ovid. Epis. 



§ Tacit. An. lib. xi. 9— lib. xii. 18. ' 



IJ Strabo, lib. iv. ca. 1 — lib. v. ca. 1 D'Anville, vol. i. 55 Seo 



JLicmpriere under the word Cotija, and the authorities cited. 



^ Cluver's Germ. Antiq. lib. i. 26. 



** Pelloutier. Hist, des Celtes. i. 15-. " 



