(T. W. F.)
COTYS, a name common to several kings of Thrace. The most important of them, a cruel and drunken tyrant, who began to reign in 382B.C., was involved with the Athenians in a dispute for the possession of the Thracian Chersonese. In this he was assisted by the Athenian Iphicrates, to whom he had given his daughter in marriage. On the revolt of Ariobarzanes from Persia, Cotys opposed him and his ally, the Athenians. In 358 he was murdered by the sons of a man whom he had wronged.
See Cornelius Nepos,Iphicrates,Timotheus; Xenophon,Agesilaus; Demosthenes,Contra Aristocratem; Theopompus in Müller,Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i.
See Cornelius Nepos,Iphicrates,Timotheus; Xenophon,Agesilaus; Demosthenes,Contra Aristocratem; Theopompus in Müller,Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i.
COUCH, DARIUS NASH(1822-1897), American soldier, was born at South East, Putnam county, N.Y., on the 23rd of July 1822, and graduated from West Point in 1846, serving in the Mexican war and in the war against the Seminole Indians. He left the army in 1855, but soon after the outbreak of the civil war he was made a brigadier-general U.S.V. He served as a divisional commander in the battles of the Army of the Potomac in 1862, and at Fredericksburg (December 1862) and Chancellorsville (May 1863) he commanded the II. corps. He had been made a major-general U.S.V. in July 1862. During the Gettysburg campaign he was employed in organizing the Pennsylvanian militia, and he subsequently served in the West, taking part in the battle of Nashville, and in the final operations in the Carolinas. He left the army after the war. General Couch died on the 12th of February 1897 at Norwalk, Connecticut.
COUCY, LE CHÂTELAIN DE, Frenchtrouvèreof the 12th century. He is probably the Guy de Couci who was castellan of the castle of that name from 1186 to 1203. Some twenty-six songs are attributed to him, and about fifteen or sixteen are undoubtedly authentic. They are modelled very closely on Provençal originals, but are saved from the category of mere imitations by a grace and simplicity peculiar to the author. The legend of the love of the Châtelain de Coucy and the Lady of Fayel, in which there figures a jealous husband who makes his wife eat the heart of her lover, has no historical basis, and dates from a late 13th century romance by Jakemon Sakesep. It is worth noting that the story, which seems to be Breton in origin, has been also told of a Provençal troubadour, Guilhem de Cabestaing, and of the minnesinger Reinmar von Brennenberg. Pierre de Belloy, who wrote some account of the family of Couci, made the story the subject of his tragedyGabrielle de Vergy.
The songs of the Châtelain de Coucy were edited by Fritz Fath (Heidelberg, 1883). For the romance see Gaston Paris, in theHist. litt. de la France(vol. 28, pp. 352-360). An exquisite song, “Chanterai por mon courage,” expressing a woman’s regrets for her lover at the Crusade, is attributed in one MS., probably erroneously, to the Lady of Fayel (Hist. litt.xxiii. 556). An English metrical romance of “The Knight of Curtesy,” and the “Fair Lady of Faguell,” was printed by William Copland, and reprinted in Ritson’sEng. Metrical Romances(ed. E. Goldsmid, vol. iii., 1885).
The songs of the Châtelain de Coucy were edited by Fritz Fath (Heidelberg, 1883). For the romance see Gaston Paris, in theHist. litt. de la France(vol. 28, pp. 352-360). An exquisite song, “Chanterai por mon courage,” expressing a woman’s regrets for her lover at the Crusade, is attributed in one MS., probably erroneously, to the Lady of Fayel (Hist. litt.xxiii. 556). An English metrical romance of “The Knight of Curtesy,” and the “Fair Lady of Faguell,” was printed by William Copland, and reprinted in Ritson’sEng. Metrical Romances(ed. E. Goldsmid, vol. iii., 1885).