Comum

, now Como , a town at the north of Insubria, at the bottom of the lake Como, in the modern duchy of Milan. It was afterwards called Novo Comum by Julius Cæsar, who transplanted a colony there, though it resumed its ancient name. It was the birthplace of the younger Pliny. Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 18 .— Livy , bk. 34 , chs. 36 & 37.— Suet on i us , Julius , ch. 28 .— Pliny the Younger , bk. 1 , ltr. 3 .— Cicero , Letters to his Friends , bk. 13 , ltr. 35 .