ise on the subject is C. Sartori's _Das
Kottabos-Spiel der alten Griechen_ (1893), in which a full
bibliography of ancient and modern authorities is given. English
readers may be referred to an article by A. Higgins on "Recent
Discoveries of the Apparatus used in playing the Game of Kottabos"
(_Archaeologia_, li. 1888); see also "Kottabos" in Daremberg and
Saglio's _Dictionnaire des antiquites_, and L. Becq de Fouquieres,
_Les Jeux des anciens_ (1873).

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The epithet [Greek: kataktos] (let down) may refer to
the rod, which might be raised or lowered as required; to the lower
disk, which might be moved up and down the stem; to the moving up and
down of the scales, in the supposed variety of the game mentioned
below.

COTTBUS, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Spree, 72
m. S.E. of Berlin by the main railway to Gorlitz, and at the
intersection of the lines Halle-Sagan and Grossenhain-Frankfort-on-Oder.
Pop. (1905) 46,269. It has four Protestant churches, a Roman Catholic
church and a synagogue. The chief industry of the town is the
manufacture of cloth, which has flourished here for centuries and now
employs more than 6000 hands. Wool-spinning, cotton-spinning and the
manufacture of tobacco, machinery, beer, brandy, &c., are also carried
on. The town is also a considerable trading centre, and is the seat of a
chamber of commerce and of a branch of the Imperial Bank (_Reichsbank_).
In the Stadtwald, close to the town, is a women's hospital for diseases
of the lungs, a government institution in connexion with the state
system of insurance against incapacity and old age. At Branitz, a
neighbouring village, are the magnificent chateau and park of Prince
Puckler-Muskau.

At one time Cottbus formed an independent lordship of the Empire, but in
1462 it passed by the treaty of Guben to Brandenburg. From 1807 to 1813
it belonged to the kingdom of Saxony.

COTTENHAM, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PEPYS, 1st EARL OF (1781-1851), lord
chancellor of England, was born in London on the 29th of April 1781. He
was the second son of Sir William W. Pepys, a master in chancery, who
was descended from John Pepys, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, a
great-uncle of Samuel Pepys, the diarist. Educated at Harrow and Trinity
College, Cambridge, Pepys was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in
1804. Practising at the chancery bar, his progress was extremely slow,
and it was not ti