Cooper, Thomaa, a Methodist Episcopiil minis- ter, was bom at Maidstone, Eng., in 1819 ; emigrated to America while young; was converted at Mount Vernon, Ohio, while a boy ; studied with success at the Norwalk seminary under Dr. Thomson, and en- tered the itinerancy in 1842. As an agent of the Ohio ^esleyan University, a seamen's missionary, and in the regular pastoral work, he was very able and use- fol, until his sudden death by cholera, July, 1849.— Thomson, Bioffraphical Sketches, p. 191.
Cooper, WiUiam, a Congregational minister, was a native of Boston, bom in 1694, and graduated at Harvard 1712. He commenced preaching in 1715, and ^as ordahied collegiate pastor of the Brattie-street
Church, May 28, 1716. He was elected president of Harvard in 1787, but declined the honor. He died Dec 12, 1743. Mr. Cooper published A Tract defend- ing Inoculation for the Smallpox (1721) ; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life vmdicated in four Sermons OL740); and several occasional discourses. — Sprague, Anncis, i, 288.
Co'ds [or rather Cos, as it is usually written] (K<Dc, contracted for K6u>Cj Anglicized ^^ Coos*' only in Acts xxi, 1), a small island (about 80 stadia in cir- cumference, Strabo x, 488), one of the Sporades, in the ^g»an Sea, near the coast of Caria in Asia Minor, and almost between the promontories on which the cities Cnidus and Halicamassus were situated (Plm. v, 36). Its more ancient names were Ceo, Staphylus, Nymphaa, and Mercpis, of which the last was the most common (Thucyd. viii, 41). Homer mentions it as a populous settlement (//. ii, 184 ; xiv, 255), no doubt of Dorian > origin. Its fertility is attested by its celebrity for wine (Plin. xv, 18; xvii, 80), its costiy ointments (Athen. xv, 688), and its fabrics of a transparent text- ure (Horace, Od. iv, 13, 7 ; TibuU. ii, 4, 6). It was the birthplace of Hippocrates. ''It is specified, in the edict which resulted from the communications of Si- mon Maccabffius with Rome, as one of the places which contained Jewish residents (1 Mace, xv, 23). Jose- phus, quoting Strabo, mentions that the Jews had a great amount of treasure stored there during the Mith- ridatic war (Ant. xiv, 7, 2). From the same source we learn that Julius Cssar issued an edict in favor of the Jews of Cos (ib. 10, 15). Herod the Great confer- red many favors on the island (Joseph. War, i, 21, 11) ; and an inscription in Bockh (No. 2502) associates it with Herod the Tetrarch. The apostle Paul, on the re- turn from his third missionary journey, passed the night here, after sailing from Miletus. The next day he went on to Rhodes (Acts xxi, 1). The proximi^ of Cos to these two important places, and to Cnidus, and its position at the entrance to the Archipelago
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firom the east, made it an island of considerable conse- quence. It was celebrated also for a temple of -^s- culapius, to which a school of physicians was attached, and which was virtually, from its votive models, a mu- seum of anatomy and pathology. The emperor Clau- dius bestowed upon Cos the privileges of a free state (Tac. ^ jm. xii, 61). The chief town (of the same name) was on the N.E., near a promontory called Scandarium, and perhaps it is to the town that reference is made in the Acts Q. c.)" (Smith). It is now called Stan^ CO or Stanchio (a corraption of ic rdv Kw), and pre- sents to the view fine plantations of lemon-trees, in- termixed with stately maples. Its population is about eight thousand, who mostly profess the Greek relig- ion (Tumor's Tour in the Levant, iii, 41). " There is a monograph on Cos by Raster (De Co Insula, Halle, 1883), and a very useful paper on the subject by Col. Leake (in the Trans, of the Royal Soc. of Literature, vol. i, second series). An account of the island will be found in Clarke's Travels (vol. ii, pt. i, p. 196-213,
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and ToL ii, pt ii, p. 821-338); but the best descriptkm ii in R068 (Beisen nach Kos, Halicamcuiuiy v. «. w. Halle, 1852, with which hia ReUen cmfdm Grieeh, In- $eU should be compared, vol. ii [1843], p. 86-92 ; vol. iu [1846], p. 126-189)" (Smith). See also the Penwy C^oiopadia and Smithes Did. ofCUm. G€ogr, a. v. Cos.
Cope (Lat. oapa^ Ft. chape), a sort of cloak, form- ing part of the sacerdotal vestments in the Roman Chorch. It was formerly worn by the clergy of the Church of England daring divine service, bnt has faiU- en into disuse, except on snch occasions as a corona- tion. It readies from the neck nearly to the feet, and is open in front, except at the top, where it is fiutened by a band or clasp. The canons of the Church of England describe it as a part of clerical dress. See Du Cange, s. v. Capa,
Copi&t8B (cowiarai, ftum coirtaM, to (oil), under- takers, grave-diggers ; in ancient times a subordinate class of servants of the Church and clergy, intrusted with the care of funerals and the burial of the dead. They are also called vetpiBones, bispeHones, vticpoOax- rai ; also ordo fotacariortan, fostortt, grave-diggers ; l6cUcarUy bearers of the bier; and coQegiaH, decam, ooUegiates and deans. The order is supposed to have been first instituted by Constantino, and in some codes they are designated ci{er»c».~Bingham, Orig. EocL III, viii,l.