in Ancient Geography, a town of the Orobi, of an ancient standing, and formerly powerful, daring to dispute with the Romans; Comenses, the people; Comensis Agri, the epithet. It became afterwards no inconsiderable municipium, to which Julius Caesar added 5000 new colonists (Strabo); whence it was generally called Novocomum, and the people Novocomenses. But in time it recovered its ancient name, Comum; Pliny the younger, a native of that place, calling it by no other name. Now Como, in the duchy of Milan, at the fourth end of the lake of that name. E. Long. 9. 37. N. Lat. 46. It is about 80 miles N.E. of Turin.