person
Cotys
also: Cotys IV
A client-king of Thrace, descended (Ovid says) from Eumolpus, cultivated and himself a poet; Ovid begs his protection as a near neighbor of Tomis in Epistulae ex Ponto 2.9.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 Eumolpus, Cotys
Cotys, the cultivated client-king of Thrace and himself a poet, whom Ovid begs for protection as a powerful neighbor of his place of exile.