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This is just to provide evidence for cōs-cōtis from classical poets:
saepe etiam duris errando in cotibus alas
(Vergilius, Georgica, 4.203)
cote cruenta
(Horatius, Carmina 2.8.16)
nil tanti est. Ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum
(Horatius, Ars Poetica, 304)
All of these scan right if and only if cot- is read with a long vowel.
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