COTYS  , a name

common to several kings of Thrace . The most important of them, a cruel and drunken tyrant, who began to reign in 382 B.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 Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i .