The Thracian goddess of immodesty, worshipped at Athens with nocturnal rites.
“Hail! goddess of nocturnal sport,
Dark-veiled Cotytto.”
Milton: Comus, 129, 130.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.