in Ancient Geography, a town of the Orobii, of an ancient standing, and formerly powerful, daring to dispute with the Romans: Comenses, the people; Comensis Ager, the epithet. It became afterwards no inconsiderable municipium, to which Julius Cesar 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 south end of the lake of that name. E. Long. 9° 37' N. Lat. 46°. It is about 80 miles N.E. of Turin.