(Como), a flourishing city of Transpadane Gaul, at the extreme southern extremity of the Lacus Larius, and at the foot of the Rhaetian Alps. Comum was founded by the Gauls, and was considered as lying within the territory of the Galli Insubres, though Pliny mentions that its foundation was in his day attributed to the Orobi, a tribe which long before that date had ceased to exist as a separate community. Though Comum seems to have been from a very early period a flourishing and important city, it has never at any time played a very conspicuous part in history. Soon after the beginning of the second century B.C., the people of Comum joined the Insubres in an attack on the Romans; but they were defeated, and their city fell into the hands of the conquerors. Comum now became a Roman colony. The first colonists who settled there, however, were unable to maintain themselves against the inroads of the Rhaetian Gauls. Additional settlers were therefore sent down from time to time. Julius Caesar in particular sent down 5000, of whom a tenth were Greeks. The colony now assumed the name of Novum Comum, which, however, it only retained for a short time. On the accession of Julius Caesar to supreme power, Comum obtained the complete right of citizenship; yet though it was at this time at the height of its prosperity, it never took rank higher than a municipal town. The elder and the younger Pliny are believed to have been both natives of Comum or its neigh- CONCANT, Dr John (1608–1693), a learned English divine, was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was appointed one of the assembly of divines, and in 1657 was admitted vice-chancellor of the university. On the restoration he was one of the commissioners at the conferences in the Savoy, but was deprived by the Act of Uniformity. After a suspension of eight years he was re-admitted into the church, and installed into the archdeaconry of Norwich, and prebendary of Worcester. During the last seven years of his life, Conant was afflicted with total blindness. His sermons were published in 6 vols.