Cory̆bas, a son of Jasus and Cybele. Diodorus, bk. 5.——A painter, disciple to Nicomachus. Pliny, bk. 35, ch. 11.
Corybassa, a city of Mysia.
Cory̆bus, a promontory of Crete.
Corycia, a nymph, mother of Lycorus by Apollo. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 6.
Cōry̆cĭdes, the nymphs who inhabited the foot of Parnassus. This name is often applied to the Muses. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 320.
Corycius, an old man of Tarentum, whose time was happily employed in taking care of his bees. He is represented by Virgil, Georgics, bk. 4, li. 12, &c., as a contented old man, whose assiduity and diligence are exemplary. Some suppose that the word Corycius implies not a person of that name, but a native of Corycus, who had settled in Italy.
Cory̆cus, now Curco, a lofty mountain of Cilicia, with a town of the same name, and also a cave, with a grove which produced excellent saffron. Horace, bk. 2, satire 4, li. 68.—Lucan, bk. 9, li. 809.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 27.—Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 12, ltr. 13.—Strabo, bk. 14.——Another of Ionia, long the famous retreat of robbers.——Another at the foot of Parnassus, sacred to the Muses. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 7.—Strabo, bk. 9.
Cory̆don, a fictitious name of a shepherd, often occuring in the pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil.
Coryla and Coryleum, a village of Paphlagonia.
Cory̆na, a town of Ionia. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 17.