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COCINTUM

Volume 6 · 60 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a promontory of the Bruttii, reckoned the longest in Italy, and which Hollenius and Voetius have restored to Ovid, reading Cocinitia for Cenarum, Metam. xv. v. 794.—Cocinum, also a town 22 miles to the south of Scylacum, almost on the spot where now Stilo stands, from which the opposite promontory Cocintum is commonly called Capo de Stilo.