a name common to several kings of Thrace, of Cappadocia, and of the Cimmerian Bosphorus. The most ancient of these was Cotys, king of Thrace, who about the year b.c. 600 permitted Alyattes, king of Lydia, to transport to that country a colony of Mysians. The kings of this family regarded themselves as descendants of Eumolpus; and hence always preserved an intimate connection with the Athenians. Several of them enjoyed the title of citizens of that state. Cotys I. who was the son of Penthicus, became king of a portion of Thrace about b.c. 380, and was assassinated in 356. Of Cotys II. little or nothing is known. Cotys III. was the son of Sadales, and reigned over the Odryses about b.c. 57. Two other princes bore the same name, and also a king of Lesser Armenia, who was son of Cotys V.