Cornĭger, a surname of Bacchus.
Cornūtus, a stoic philosopher of Africa, preceptor to Persius the satirist. He wrote some treatises on philosophy and rhetoric. Persius, bk. 5, li. 36.——A pretor of Rome, in the age of Cicero. Cicero, bk. 10, ltr. 12.——A Roman, saved from the proscription of Marius by his servants, who hung up a dead man in his room, and said it was their master. Plutarch, Marius.
Corœbus, a Phrygian, son of Mygdon and Anaximena. He assisted Priam in the Trojan war, with the hopes of being rewarded with the hand of Cassandra for his services. Cassandra advised him in vain to retire from the war. He was killed by Peneleus. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 37.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 341, &c.——A courier of Elis, killed by Neoptolemus. He obtained a prize at Olympia, B.C. 776, in the 28th olympiad, from the institution of Iphitus; but this year has generally been called the first olympiad. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 8.——A hero of Argolis, who killed a serpent called Pœne, sent by Apollo to avenge Argos, and placed by some authors in the number of the furies. His country was afflicted with the plague, and he consulted the oracle of Delphi, which commanded him to build a temple where a tripod which was given him should fall from his hand. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 43.
Corōna, a town of Messenia. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 5.
Coronēa, a town of Bœotia, where, in the first year of the Corinthian war, Agesilaus defeated the allied forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, B.C. 394. Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus.—Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 34.—Diodorus, bk. 12.——A town of Peloponnesus,——of Corinth,——of Cyprus,——of Ambracia,——of Phthiotis.
Corōnis, a daughter of Phlegias, loved by Apollo. She became pregnant by her lover, who killed her on account of her criminal partiality to Ischys the Thessalian. According to some, Diana killed her for her infidelity to her brother, and Mercury saved the child from her womb, as she was on the burning pile. Others say that she brought forth her son and exposed him, near Epidaurus, to avoid her father’s resentment; and they further mention that Apollo had set a crow to watch her behaviour. The child was preserved, and called Æsculapius; and the mother, after death, received divine honours, and had a statue at Sicyon, in her son’s temple, which was never exposed to public view. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 26.——The daughter of Coronæus king of Phocis, changed into a crow by Minerva, when flying before Neptune. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 543.——One of the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
Coronia, a town of Acarnania. Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 102.
Corōnus, a son of Apollo. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 5.——A son of Phoroneus king of the Lapithæ. Diodorus, bk. 4.
Corrhāgium, a town of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 27.
Corsi, a people of Sardinia, descended from the Corsicans.