Coriŏli and Coriolla, a town of Latium on the borders of the Volsci, taken by the Romans under Caius Martius, called from thence Coriolanus. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Plutarch.—Livy, bk. 2, ch. 33.
Corissus, a town of Ionia.
Coritus. See: [Corytus].
Cormasa, a town of Pamphylia. Livy, bk. 38, ch. 15.
Cormus, a river near Assyria. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 14.
Cornēlia lex, de Civitate, was enacted A.U.C. 670, by Lucius Cornelius Sylla. It confirmed the Sulpician law, and required that the citizens of the eight newly elected tribes should be divided among the 35 ancient tribes.——Another, de Judiciis, A.U.C. 673, by the same. It ordained that the pretor should always observe the same invariable method in judicial proceedings, and that the process should not depend upon his will.——Another, de Sumptibus, by the same. It limited the expenses which generally attended funerals.——Another, de Religione, by the same, A.U.C. 677. It restored to the college of priests the privilege of choosing the priests, which, by the Domitian law, had been lodged in the hands of the people.——Another, de Municipiis, by the same, which revoked all the privileges which had been some time before granted to the several towns that had assisted Marius and Cinna in the civil wars.——Another, de Magistratibus, by the same, which gave the power of bearing honours and being promoted before the legal age, to those who had followed the interest of Sylla, while the sons and partisans of his enemies, who had been proscribed, were deprived of the privilege of standing for any office of the state.——Another, de Magistratibus, by the same, A.U.C. 673. It ordained that no person should exercise the same office within 10 years’ distance, or be invested with two different magistracies in one year.——Another, de Magistratibus, by the same, A.U.C. 673. It divested the tribunes of the privilege of making laws interfering, holding assemblies, and receiving appeals. All such as had been tribunes were incapable of holding any other office in the state by that law.——Another, de Majestate, by the same, A.U.C. 670. It made it treason to send an army out of a province, or engage in a war without orders, to influence the soldiers to spare or ransom a captive general of the enemy, to pardon the leaders of robbers or pirates, or for the absence of a Roman citizen to a foreign court without previous leave. The punishment was, aquæ et ignis interdictio.——Another, by the same, which gave the power to a man accused of murder, either by poison, weapons, or false accusations, and the setting fire to buildings, to choose whether the jury that tried him should give their verdict clam or palam, vivâ voce or by ballot.——Another, by the same, which made it aquæ et ignis interdictio to such as were guilty of forgery, concealing and altering of wills, corruption, false accusations, and the debasing or counterfeiting of the public coin; all such as were accessary to this offence were deemed as guilty as the offender.——Another, de pecuniis repetundis, by which a man convicted of peculation or extortion in the provinces was condemned to suffer the aquæ et ignis interdictio.——Another, by the same, which gave the power to such as were sent into the provinces with any government, of retaining their command and appointment, without a renewal of it by the senate, as was before observed.——Another, by the same, which ordained that the lands of proscribed persons should be common, especially those about Volaterræ and Fesulæ in Etruria, which Sylla divided among his soldiers.——Another, by Caius Cornelius, tribune of the people, A.U.C. 686, which ordained that no person should be exempted from any law, according to the general custom, unless 200 senators were present in the senate; and no person thus exempted could hinder the bill of his exemption from being carried to the people for their concurrence.——Another, by Nasica, A.U.C. 582, to make war against Perseus, son of Philip king of Macedonia, if he did not give proper satisfaction to the Roman people.
Cornēlia, a daughter of Cinna, who was the first wife of Julius Cæsar. She became mother of Julia, Pompey’s wife, and was so affectionately loved by her husband, that at her death he pronounced a funeral oration over her body. Plutarch, Cæsar.——A daughter of Metellus Scipio, who married Pompey, after the death of her husband Publius Crassus. She has been praised for her great virtues. When her husband left her in the bay of Alexandria, to go on shore in a small boat, she saw him stabbed by Achillas, and heard his dying groans without the possibility of aiding him. She attributed all his misfortunes to his connection with her. Plutarch, Pompey.——A daughter of Scipio Africanus, who married Sempronius Gracchus, and was the mother of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. She was courted by a king; but she preferred being the wife of a Roman citizen to that of a monarch. Her virtues have been deservedly commended, as well as the wholesome principles which she inculcated in her two sons. When a Campanian lady made once a show of her jewels at Cornelia’s house, and entreated her to favour her with a sight of her own, Cornelia produced her two sons, saying, “These are the only jewels of which I can boast.” In her lifetime, a statue was raised to her, with this inscription, Cornelia mater Gracchorum. Some of her epistles are preserved. Plutarch, Gracchus.—Juvenal, satire 6, li. 167.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 4, ch. 4.—Cicero, Brutus, ch. 58; de Claris Oratoribus, ch. 58.——A vestal virgin, buried alive in Domitian’s age, as guilty of incontinence. Suetonius, Domitian.
Cornēlii, an illustrious family at Rome, of whom the most distinguished were, Caius Cornelius, a soothsayer of Padua, who foretold the beginning and issue of the battle of Pharsalia.——Dolabella, a friend and admirer of Cleopatra. He told her that Augustus intended to remove her from the monument, where she had retired.——An officer of Sylla, whom Julius Cæsar bribed to escape the proscription which threatened his life.——Cethegus, a priest, degraded from his office for want of attention.——Cnæus, a man chosen by Marcellus to be his colleague in the consulship.——Balbus, a man who hindered Julius Cæsar from rising up at the arrival of the senators.——Cossus, a military tribune during the time that there were no consuls in the republic. He offered to Jupiter the spoils called opima. Livy, bk. 4, ch. 19.——Balbus, a man of Gades, intimate with Cicero, by whom he was ably defended when accused.——A freedman of Sylla the dictator.——Scipio, a man appointed master of the horse by Camillus, when dictator.——Gallus, an elegiac poet. See: [Gallus].——Merula, was made consul by Augustus, in the room of Cinna.——Marcellus, a man killed in Spain by Galba.——Cornelius Nepos, an historian. See: [Nepos].——Merula, a consul sent against the Boii in Gaul. He killed 1400 of them. His grandson followed the interest of Sylla; and when Marius entered the city he killed himself, by opening his veins.——Gallus, a man who died in the act of copulation. Valerius Maximus, bk. 9, ch. 12.——Severus, an epic poet in the age of Augustus, of great genius. He wrote a poem on mount Ætna, and on the death of Cicero. Quintilian, bk. 10, li. 1.——Thuscus, a mischievous person.——Lentulus Cethegus, a consul.——Aulus Celsus, wrote eight books on medicine, still extant, and highly valued.——Cnæus and Publius Scipio. See: [Scipio].——Lentulus, a high priest, &c. Livy.—Plutarch.—Valerius Maximus.—Tacitus.—Suetonius.—Polybius.—Cornelius Nepos, &c.
Cornicŭlum, a town of Latium. Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Cornificius, a poet and general in the age of Augustus, employed to accuse Brutus, &c. His sister Cornificia was also blessed with a poetical genius. Plutarch, Brutus.——A lieutenant of Julius Cæsar. Plutarch, Cæsar.——A friend of Cicero, and his colleague in the office of augur.