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founder, and not the Marcellus engaged in the civil war 
between Csffur and Pompey. It was famous for its rich 
produce in oil. Now Cordova, 
COR'DUB A, f. in botany. See Asparagus. 
COR'DUS (Euricius), a German phyfician and poet, 
died at Bremen, the 24th of December, 1535, after hav¬ 
ing publifhed feveral works in the art of medicine. He 
was in habits of intimacy with many of the learned of his 
time, among others with Erafmus; but his great fince- 
rity and opennefs of character fometimes railed him ene¬ 
mies. His Latin poems appeared at Leyden in 1623, 8vo. 
COR'DUS (Valerius), fon of the foregoing, born at 
Hefle-Caffel, in 1515. He applied himfelf with equal 
fuccefs to the ftudy of.languages and ot plants. He tra- 
verfed all the mountains of Germany, for the purpofe of 
gathering iimples. He then went into Italy, (lopped at 
Padua, at Pda, at Lucca, and at Florence; but, being 
wounded in the leg by a kick from a horfe, he-ended his 
days at Rome, in 1544, at the age of twenty-nine. The 
works with which he enriched the early knowledge of 
botany, are, r. Remarks on Diofcorides, Zurich, 1561, 
folio." 2. Hiftoria Stirpium, libri v. Strafburg, 1561 & 
1563, 2 vols. folio; a pofthumous work. 3. Difpenfa- 
torium Pharmacorum omnium, Leyden, 1627, 121110. 
(The purity of his morals, the politenefs of his manners, 
and the extent of his knowledge, conciliated the efteem 
and the praifes of all lovers of real merit. 
CORDWAIN, /. [Cordovan leather, from Cordova in 
Spain.] Spanidi leather. 
Her ftraight legs mod bravely were embay’d 
In golden bufkins of coftly cordwain. Spcnfcr. 
CORDWA'INER, / [uncertain whether from Cordo¬ 
van, Spani(h leather, or from cord, of which dioes were 
formerly made, and are now ufed in the Spanidi Weft 
Indies., Trcvoux.} A (hoe-maker. 
COR'DYLINE, /. in botany. See Dracaena and 
Yucca. 
CORE,/, [or ur, Fr. cor, Lat.] Tlie heart: 
Give me that man 
That is not paffion’s dave, and I will wear him 
In my heart’s core ; ay, in my heart of heart. Shakefpeare. 
The inner part of any thing.—In the core of the fquare 
.(lie railed a tower of a furlong high. Raleigh. 
They wafteful eat, 
Through buds and bark, into the blacken'd core. Thomfon. 
The inner part of a fruit which contains the kernels.— 
It is reported that trees, watered perpetually with warm 
water, will make a fruit with little or no core or done. 
Bacon. —The matter contained in a boil or fore : 
Launce the fore, 
And cut the head ; for, till the core be found, 
The fecret vice is S 0 y and gathei*S ground. Dryden. 
It is ufed by Bacon for a body or collection ; [from corps, 
Fr. pronounced core. ]—He was more doubtful of the 
railing of forces to redd the rebels, than of the refiftance 
itfelf; for that he was in a core of people whole attentions 
he fulpected. Bacon. 
CORE, a daughter of Ceres, the fame as Proferpine. 
Feftivals called Coreia , were inftituted to her honour in 
Greece. 
CORE BANK, a narrow idand of the American States, 
on th^coaft of North Carolina, about forty miles long, 
and hardly two broad. Lat. 34. 22. to 34. 55. N. Ion. 76. 
26. to 76. 50. W. Greenwich. 
CORE'A, a kingdom of Ada, bounded on the north 
by Chinefe Tartary, on the eaft by the fea of Japan, o.n 
the fouth by a narrow fea which parts it from the Japanefe 
idands, and on the weft by the Yellow Sea, which parts 
it from China. It is a pemnfula, being every where fur- 
rounded with the fea, except towards the north. It is 
governed by a king, tributary of the emperor of China, 
and divided into eight provinces, Hien-king, Ping-ngan, 
Hoang-hai, Kiang-yuen, King-ki, Tchu-fin, King-chan, 
COR 
and Tchuen-lo. There are many towns exceedingly po¬ 
pulous, whole inhabitants follow nearly the fame cuf- 
toms, and are of the fame religion, as the Chinefe. Corea 
abounds in corn and rice, of which laft they have two 
kinds, one which delights in water, and the other culti¬ 
vated on dry ground like corn, which is the better fort. 
There are mines of gold and filver in the mountains, and 
good pearl fiflieries on the coaft. Corea extends from 
north to fouth about five hundred miles, and about two 
hundred wide from eaft to weft. 
CO'RED, a town of Egypt: fixteen miles north-eaft: 
of Belbeis. 
CORE'GLIO, a town of Italy, in the (late of Lucca ; 
fifteen miles north of Lucca. 
COREL'LA, a town of Spain, in Navarre, on the Al¬ 
bania : fix leagues from Tudella. 
COREL'LI (Arcangelo), a famous mufician of Ttaly, 
born at Fufignano, a town of Bologna, in 1653. His firft 
inftructor in mufic was Simonelli, a finger in the pope’s 
chapel ; but his genius leading him to prefer fecular to 
eccleliaftical mufic, he afterwards became a difciple of 
Baflani, who excelled in that fpecies of compofition. 
Though he Was taught the organ, he neverthelefs had 
an early propenlity for the violin, on which he made fo 
great a proficiency, that fome have not fcrupled to pro¬ 
nounce him at that time the firft performer in the world. 
About 1672 his curiefity led him to Paris ; but the jea¬ 
lous temper of Lully not brooking Co formidable a rival, 
he foon returned to Rome. In 1680 he vifited Germany, 
was received by the princes there fuitably to his merit ; 
and, after about five years (lay abroad, he returned and 
fettled at Rome. While thus intent upon mufical pur- 
fuits, he fell under the patronage of cardinal Ottoboni ; 
and is (aid to have regulated the mufical "academy held 
at the cardinal’s palace in Rome every Monday after¬ 
noon. Here it was that Handel became acquaintfed with 
him ; and in this academy the ferenata of Handel, intitled 
II trionfo del tempo, “ the triumph of time and of truth,” 
was performed : the overture to which was in a ftyle fo 
new and lingular, that Corelli was confounded in his firft: 
attempt to play it. This ferenata was performed at Lon¬ 
don in 1751. The merits of Corelli as a performer were 
fufiicient to attradl the patronage of the great, and to 
filence, as they did, all competition ; but the remem¬ 
brance of thefe is abforbed in the contemplation of his 
excellencies as a mufician at large, as the author of new 
and original harmonies, and the father of a ftyle not lefs 
noble and grand than elegant and pathetic. He died at 
Rome in 1713, aged fixty ; and was buried in the church 
of the Rotunda, otherwife called the Pantheon; where, 
for many years after his deceafe, he was commemorated 
by a folemn mufical performance on the anniverfary of 
his death. 
CORE'MATA,/ [from y.o^u, tocleanfe.] Medicines 
which cleanfe the (kin. 
COREIN'DELIN, a town of Swifferland, in the canton 
of Soleure : ten miles north of Soleure. 
CO'RENTYN, or Corantine, a river of South Ame¬ 
rica, in the country of Surinam, which runs into the At¬ 
lantic in latitude 5. 46. north. 
COREOP'SIS,/ [from xopi;, a bug, or tick; ando\j/ic, 
appearance : the feed having fome refeniblance of thefe 
infedts.] In botany, a genus of the clafs fyngenefia, order 
polygamia fruftranea, natural order of compcfitae oppo- 
fitifolire. The generic charadters are—Calyx : common 
either iimple, fubimbricate, or doubled ; the exterior 
ufually with eight leaflets, which are coarfe, and placed 
in a circle ; the interior with as many larger ones, mem¬ 
branaceous and coloured. Corolla : compound rayed ; 
coroliets hermaphrodite, numerous in the diflc ; females 
eight, in the ray ; proper, of the hermaphrodite tubu¬ 
lar, five-toothed ; female ligulate, four toothed, fpread- 
ing,. large. Stamina : in the hermaphrodites ; filaments 
five, capillary, very (liort; antherae cylindric, tubular. 
Piftillum : in the hermaphrodite's; germ comprefled; 
ftyle filiform, length of the ftamens; ftigma bifid, acute, 
(lender: 
