Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Cos

    place · 7 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    Coan · Cos Meropis · the goodly city of Cos

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    City to which Hera once drove Herakles by storm, recalled by Sleep.

    meanwhile you hatched a plot against Herakles, and set the blasts of the angry winds beating upon the sea [ pontos], till you took him to the goodly city of Cos away from all his friends.
    chapter 14
    yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Herakles whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas [ pontos] to Cos, after suborning the tempests;
    chapter 3

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Aegean island recently devastated by an earthquake, sacked by Astyochus's fleet.

    and having made a descent on the territory, and defeated in an engagement those of the Rhodians who went out against them, they withdrew to Chalce, and carried on the war from that place, rather than from Cos;
    chapter 8
    Cos Meropis, which was unfortified, and in ruins in consequence of an earthquake which they had experienced—the most violent one which I ever remember—he sacked the town, the men having fled to the mountains, and by incursions made spoil of the country, excepting the free population, whom he released.
    chapter 8
    After executing these measures, and placing a governor in Cos, it being now towards autumn, he sailed back to Samos.
    chapter 8

    Against LacritusClassical · Greek

    Island/source associated with Coan wine.

    there was on board salt fish, Coan wine, and sundry other things;
    against lacritus
    Now, men of the jury, take thought in your own minds, whether you ever knew or heard of any people importing wine by way of trade from Pontus to Athens, and especially Coan wine.
    against lacritus
    ) The Coan wine (eighty jars of wine that had turned sour) and the salt fish were being transported in the vessel for a certain farmer from Panticapaeum to Theodosia for the use of the laborers on his farm.
    against lacritus

    For the Liberty of the RhodiansClassical · Greek

    A Greek island or state cited among those seized by Carian rulers.

    No one has come forward to dissuade Mausolus when he was alive, or Artemisia since his death, from seizing Cos and Rhodes and various other Greek states, which the King, their overlord, ceded by treaty to the Greeks, and for which the Greeks of those days faced many dangers and won much honor in the field.
    for the liberty of the rhodians

    On the PeaceClassical · Greek

    A Greek island occupied by the Carian.

    In the same way by agreement with Philip we have waived our claim to Amphipolis, and we are permitting Cardia to be excepted from the rest of the Chersonese, the Carian to occupy the islands of Chios, Cos, and Rhodes, and the Byzantines to detain our ships in harbor, obviously because we think that the respite which the peace affords is more productive of advantages than wrangling and coming to bl …
    on the peace

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Aegean island whose tyranny Cadmus voluntarily relinquished before settling in Sicily.

    This Cadmus had previously inherited from his father the tyranny of Cos.
    chapter 7

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    An island Lysander sails to on his way from Rhodes to Miletus and Ephesus.

    And after Lysander had arrived at Rhodes and secured some ships there, he sailed to Cos and Miletus, and from there to Ephesus, where he remained with seventy ships until Cyrus arrived at Sardis.
    chapter 1