A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Corymbĭfer, a surname of Bacchus, from his wearing a crown of corymbi, certain berries that grow on the ivy. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 1, li. 393.

Coryneta and Corynetes, a famous robber, son of Vulcan, killed by Theseus. Plutarch, Theseus.

Coryphasium, a promontory of Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 36.

Coryphe, a daughter of Oceanus. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 2, ch. 23.

Corythenes, a place of Tegea. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 45.

Corythus, a king of Corinth. Diodorus, bk. 4.

Corytus, a king of Etruria, father to Jasius, whom Dardanus is said to have put to death to obtain the kingdom. It is also a town and mountain of Etruria, now Cortona, near which Dardanus was born. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 170; bk. 7, li. 209.—Silius Italicus, bk. 5, li. 123; bk. 4, li. 721.

Cos, an island. See: [Co].

Cosa and Cossa, or Cŏsæ, a town of Etruria. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 168.—Livy, bk. 22, ch. 11.—Cicero, bk. 9, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 6.—Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 1, ch. 34.

Cosconius, a Latin writer. Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 5.——A wretched epigram writer. Martial, bk. 2, ltr. 77.