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jan war, on which he wrote a poem. Homer, as fome 
fuppofe, took, his fubjedt from the poem of Corinnus. 
CO'RINTH, or Corinto, or Coranto, a celebrated 
town of Greece, in the Morea, fituated near a narrow 
ifthmus to which it gives name, and which joins the Mo¬ 
rea. to the reft of Greece, between tire gulf of Lepanto 
and that of Engia. It was firft founded by Sifyphus, fon 
ot /Solus, A. M. 2616, and received its ljame from Co- 
■rintluis the fon of Peiops. Its original name was Ephyre ; 
and it is called Bimaris, becaufe lituate between the Sa- 
ronicus Sinus and Crifleus Sinus. The inhabitants were 
once very powerful, and had great influence among the 
Grecian ftates. They colonized Syracufe in Sicily, and 
delivered it from the tyranny of its oppreflors, by the 
means of Timoleon. Corinth was totally deftroyed by I,. 
Mutnmius, the Roman conful, and burnt to the ground 
146 years before Chrift. The riches which the Romans 
found there were immenfe. During the conflagration, 
all the metals which were in the city melted and mixed 
together, and formed that valuable compofition of me¬ 
tals, which has (ince been known by the name of Co¬ 
rinthian braj's. There was ,a famous temple of Venus, 
where many lafeivious women reforted, and fold their 
pleafur.es fo dear, that many of their lovers were re¬ 
duced to poverty ; whence the proverb of Non cuivis 
hommi contingit adire Corinthium., to (hew that all volup¬ 
tuous indulgences are attended with much expence. 
The government of Corinth was monarchical, till 779 
years before Chrift, when officers called prytanes were 
inftituted. The war, which has received the name 
of Corinthian war, becaufe the battles were fought in the 
neighbourhood of Corinth, was begun 395 years before 
Chrift, by the combination of the Athenians, Thebans, 
Corinthians, and Argives, againft Lacetkemon. Pifander 
and Ageftlaus diftinguilhe'd themfelves in that war; the 
former, on the firft year of hoftilities, was'defeated with 
the Lacedaemonian fleet, by Conon, near Cnidus; while 
a few days after, Ageftlaus ilaughtered 10,000 of the 
enemy. The moft famous battleswere fought at Coro- 
nea and Leuflra; but Ageftlaus refufed to beftege Co¬ 
rinth, lamenting that the Greeks, inftead of deftroying 
one another, did not turn their arms againft the Perlian 
power. Julius Casfar endeavoured to reftore it to its 
former grandeur, and fent thither a colony ; to whom 
St. Paul preached, and wrote his two Epiftles. Under 
the eaftern emperors, it was the fee of an archbifhop, 
fubjeiSt to the patriarch of Conftantinople. Roger, king 
of Naples, became poflefled of it in the empire of Ema¬ 
nuel. It had afterwards fovereigns of its own, who ceded 
it to the Venetians, from whom it was taken by Maho¬ 
met II. in 1458. The Venetians retook it in 1687, and 
held it till the year 1715, when they loft it to the Turks, 
in whofe hands it has remained ever fince. The town at 
prefent contains about thirteen or fourteen hundred in¬ 
habitants, principally Chriftians of the Greek church : 
each houfe has a garden, planted with orange and other 
fruit-trees : forty-fix miles eaft of Athens, and 342 fouth- 
weft of Conftantinople. Lat. 38. 7. N. Ion. 40. 40. E. 
Ferro. 
CO'RINTH, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Orange county, Vermont, weft of Bradford, containing 
578 inhabitants. 
. CO'RINTH, f. [from the city of that name in Greece. ] 
At final 1 fruit, commonly called currant. —The chief riches 
of Zant confift in corintks, which the inhabitants have in 
great,•quantities. Broome. 
Now will the corintks, now the rafps fupply 
Delicious draughts. Philips. 
CORIN'THIAN BRASS. See Brass. 
CORIN'THIAN ORDER,/, of architefture, is the 
fourth in order,, or the fifth and laft, according to Sca- 
moz/.i and Le Clerc. See Architecture. 
CO'RIO (Bernardine), horn in 1460, of an illuftrious 
family 0/ Milan, was felefted by duke Louis Sforza. 
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furnamed Maurus, for compofing the hiftory of his conn* 
try ; but the French having got pofleftion of the Mila- 
nefe, and the duke his patron being taken prifoner, he 
died of grief in 1500, at the age of forty. The beft edi¬ 
tion of his hiftory is that of Milan in 1503, in folio. It 
is finely printed, fcarce, and much more fought after 
than thofe fince publiihed, disfigured by mutilations. 
Some eftimation, however, is attached to that'of Venice,, 
• r .554> 1565, 4to. and that of Paris, 1646, 4to. Notwith- 
ftanding that this hiftorian writes in a barfti and incor¬ 
rect ftile, he is in repute for his exactitude in afeertain- 
ing dates, and in relating the circumftances of facts that 
excite curiofity and intereft.the attention. His nephew 
Charles Corio employed himfelf on the fame objeft as 
his uncle had fo laborioufly purfued ; and has left, in 
Italian, a Portrait of the City of Milan, in which are 
collected the monuments, ancipnt and modern, of that 
unfortunate city. 
CORIOLA'NUS, the furname of Caius Martius, from 
his viftory over Corioli, where, from a private foldier, 
he gained the ampleft honours. When mafter of the 
place, he accepted as the only reward, the furname of 
Coriolanus, a horfe, and prifoners, his ancient lioft, to 
whom he immediately gave his liberty. After a number 
of military exploits, and many fervices for his country, 
he was refufed the confulftiip by the people, when Iris, 
fears had for a while influenced them in his favour. 
This raifed his refentment; and, when the Romans had 
received a prefent of corn from Gelo king of Sicily, Co¬ 
riolanus infilled that it lliould be fold for money, and not 
be given gratis. Upon this the tribunes raifed the peo¬ 
ple againft him for his imprudent advice, and even 
wilhed him to be put to death. This rigorous fentence 
was Hopped by the influence of the fenators, and Corio¬ 
lanus fubmitted to a trial. He was banilhed by a ma¬ 
jority of three tribes, and he immediately retired among 
the Volfci, to Tullus Aufidius, his greateft enemy, from 
whom he met a moft tender reception. He advifed him 
to make war againft Rome, and he marched at the head 
of the Volfci as general. The approach of Coriolanus 
greatly alarmed the Romans, w'ho fent him feveral em- 
baflies to reconcile him to his country, and to folicit his 
return. He was deaf to all propofals, and bade them 
prepare for war. He pitched his camp only at the dil- 
tance of five miles from the city ; and his enmity againft 
his country would have been fatal, had not his mother 
Volumnia, and his wife Vergilia, been prevailed upon 
by the Roman matrons, to go and appeafe his refent- 
ment. The meeting of Coriolanus with his family was 
tender and affecting. He remained long inexorable ; but 
at laft the tears and entreaties of a mother and a wife pre¬ 
vailed over the ftern and obftinate refolutions of an ene¬ 
my, and Coriolanus marched the Volfci from the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Rome. To (hew their ftenfe of Volumnia’s 
merit and patriotifm, the Romans dedicated a temple to 
Female Fortune. The behaviour of Coriolanus difpleafed 
the Volfci. He was fummoned to appear before the peo¬ 
ple of Antium; but the clamours which his enemies 
raifed were fo prevalent, that he was murdered on the 
place appointed for his trial, 4S8 years before Chrift. His 
body was honoured with a magnificent funeral by the 
Volfci; and the Roman matrons put on mourning for 
his lofs. Some hiftorians fay that he died in exile, in an 
advanced old age. 
CORI'OLI, or Coriolla, a town of Latium, on the 
borders of the Volfci, taken by the Romans under Co¬ 
riolanus. 
CORIOTRAGEMATODEN'DROS. See Myrica. 
CO'RIS,/ [from r.opi?, a bug or tick ; others derive 
it from Kop, the pupil of the eye.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural order 
of lyfimachias. The^generic characters are—Calyx : pe- 
rianthium one-leafed, bellied, converging, five-tootheu ; 
externally crowned with fpines, of which the five fupe- 
rior ones are fimple ? the inferior ones toothed. Corolla: 
one- 
