155. Strabon. Geograph. 1. xii. p. 809 [p. 535, edit.
Casaub]. The other temple of Comana, in Pontus, was a colony
from that of Cappadocia, 1. xii. p. 835 [p. 557, ed.
Casaub.]. The president Des Brosses (see his Saluste, tom.
ii. p. 21) conjectures that the deity adored in both Comanas
was Beltis, the Venus of the East, the goddess of
generation, a very different being indeed from the goddess
of war.