Comité des Études du Haut Congo

See In ternational African A ociation . Comitium (ko-mish'ium). [L., 'place of a em bly. A paved area in ancient Rome, between the northeastern side of the Forum Romanum and the Curia, where the Comitia Curiata, or a embly of the patricians, met, and where the most important legal cases were tried. It was surrounded with a barrier by Tullus Hostilius. On the Comitium stood the original rostra , or official speakers' platform, and close to it was the græcost as is , the platform provided for foreign envoys. - Comma gene (kom-a-jēnē). [Gr. Κομμαγηνή.] In between the Euphrates on the east and Cilicia ancient geography, a district in northern Syria, on the west. It was at one time tributary to the A yrian empire, and was an independent kingdom from 65 B. C.-17 A. D. It is called Kummuh in the A yrian cuneiform inscriptions. Commander of the Faithful. [Ar. Emir -almu'min in.] A title of the califs, first a umed by Omar 634-644. Commemoration Ode. An ode by James Ru ell Lowell in memory of the members of Harvard College who had served in the Civil War, read at the memorial exercises at Cambridge in 1865. Commendation of Our Lady. A ballade once attributed to Chaucer, but erroneously. It is not written in ballade form. Tyrwhitt thinks there is evidence that Lydgate may have written it. Commentaries, Cæsar's. See Cæsar , Julius . Com mercy (ko-mer-se'). A town in the department of Meuse, France, situated on the Meuse 20 miles east of Bar-le-Duc. It has a castle. Population (1891), commune, 7,483. Commi ary (kom'i-sa-ri), The. A comedy by Foote, produced in 1765. Committee (ko-mit'ē), The. A comedy by Sir R. Howard, printed in 1665. Evelyn saw it played in 1662. It was revised by T. Knight and produced as "The Honest Thieves" in 1797.