_Comedy (Prince of Ancient)_, Aristoph'anês (B.C. 444-380). _Comedy (Prince of New)_, Menander (B.C. 342-291). COMEDY OF ERRORS, by Shakespeare (1593), Aemilia, wife of Ægeon, had two sons at a birth, and named both of them Antipholus. When grown to manhood, each of these sons had a slave named Dromio, also twin-brothers. The brothers Antipholus had been shipwrecked in infancy, and being picked up by different vessels, were carried one to Syracuse and the other to Ephesus. The play supposes that Antipholus of Syracuse goes in search of his brother, and coming to Ephesus with his slave, Dromio, a series of mistakes arises from the extraordinary likeness of the two brothers and their two slaves. Adriana, the wife of the Ephesian, mistakes the Syracusan for her husband; but he behaves so strangely that her jealousy is aroused, and when her true husband arrives he is arrested as a mad man. Soon after, the Syracusan brother being seen, the wife, supposing it to be her mad husband broken loose, sends to capture him; but he flees into a convent. Adriana now lays her complaint before the duke, and the lady abbess comes into court. So both brothers face each other, the mistakes are explained, and the abbess turns out to be Aemilia, the mother of the twin brothers. Now, it so happened that Ægeon, searching for his son, also came to Ephesus, and was condemned to pay a fine or suffer death, because he, a Syracusan, had set foot in Ephesus. The duke, however, hearing the story, pardoned him. Thus Ægeon found his wife in the abbess, the parents their twin sons, and each son his long-lost brother. [Illustration] The plot of this comedy is copied from the _Menaechmí_ of Plautus. COMHAL or COMBAL, son of Trathal, and father of Fingal. His queen was Morna, daughter of Thaddu. Comhal was slain in battle, fighting against the tribe of Morni, the very day that Fingal was born.--Ossian. Fingal said to Aldo, "I was born in the battle." Ossian, _The Battle of Lora_. COMINES [_Cum'.in_]. Philip des Comines, the favorite minister of Charles, "the Bold," Duke of Burgundy, is introduced by Sir W. Scott, in _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL (_Emir al Mumenin_), a title assumed by Omar I., and retained by his successors in the caliphate (581, 634-644). COMMINGES (_2 syl_.) (_Count de_), the hero of a novel so-called by Mde. de Tencin (1681-1749).