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COCINTUM

Volume 5 · 59 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geogr.), a promontory of the Bruttii, reckoned the longest in Italy: and which Holstenius and Vossius have restored to Ovid, reading Cocintia for Ceurania, Metam. XV. v. 704.—Cocintum, also a town, 22 miles to the south of Scylaceum, almost on the spot where now Stilo stands; from which the opposite promontory Cocintum is commonly called Capo de Stilo.