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deprived of the privilege of (landing for any office in the 
date.—Another, de magifratibus, by the fame, in 673. It 
ordained that no perfon fhould exercife the fame office 
within ten years diftance, or be inverted with two diffe¬ 
rent magirtracies in one year.—Another, de magifratibus, 
by the fame, in 673. It diverted the tribunes of the pri¬ 
vilege of making laws, interfering, holding aflemblies, 
and receiving appeals. All fuch as had been tribunes 
were incapable of holding any other office in tire ftate by 
that law.—Another, de majejlate , by the fame, in 670. 
It made it tr.eafon to lend an army out of a province, or 
engage in a war without orders, to influence tire foldiers 
to (pare or ranfom a captive general of the enemy, to 
pardon the leaders of robbers or pirates, or for the ab¬ 
sence of a Roman citizen, to a foreign court, without 
previous leave. The punifhment was, aqwz 6? ignis in.ter- 
didio. —Another, by the fame, which gave the power to 
a man accufed of murder, either by poifon, weapons, or 
falfe accufations, and the fetting fire to buildings, to 
choofe whether the jury that tried him fhould give their 
verdict clam or palam, viva voce or by ballots.—Another, 
by the fame, which made it aqiue & ignis interdidio to 
fuch as were guilty of forgery, concealing and altering 
of wills, corruption, falfe accufations, and the debating 
or counterfeiting of the public coin; all fuch as were 
acceffary to this offence, were deemed as guilty as the 
offender.—Another, dc pccuniis repetundis, by which a man 
convicted of peculation or extortion in the provinces, 
was condemned to fuffer the aqua & ignis interdiElio. —■ 
Another, by the fame, which gave the power to fuch 
as were feat into the provinces with any government, of 
retaining their command and appointment, without a 
renewal of it by the lenate, as was before obferved.— 
Another, by the fame, which ordained that the lands of 
proferibed perfons fhould be common, efpecially thofe 
about Volaterrae and Fefulae in Etruria, which Sylla di¬ 
vided among Iris foldiers.—Another, by C. Cornelius, 
tribune of the people, in 686 ; which ordained that no 
perfon fhould be exempted from any law, according to 
the general cuftom, unlefs two hundred fenators were 
prefent in the fenate ; and no perfon thus exempted, 
could hinder the bill of his exemption from being car¬ 
ried to the people for their concurrence.—Another, by 
.Nafica, in 582, to make war againft Perfeus, fon of Philip, 
king of Macedonia, if he did not give proper fatisfadfion 
to the Roman people. 
CORNE'LI AN-CHERRY, f. in botany. See Cornus. 
CORNET,IAN-STONE. See Carnelian. 
CORNE'LII, an illuftrious family at Rome, of whom 
the mod diflinguifhed were, Caius Cornelius, a footh- 
fayer of Padua, who foretold the beginning and iflue of 
the battle of Pharfalia.—Dolabella, a friend and admirer 
of Cieopatra. He told her that Auguftus intended to re¬ 
move her from the monument, where fire had retired.—. 
An officer of Sylla, whom Julius C re far bribed to efcape 
the profeription which threatened his life.—Merula, a 
conful, fent againft the Boii in Gaul. He killed fourteen 
hundred of them. His grandfon foilovyed the intereft of 
Sylla ; and when Marius entered the city, he killed him- 
felf, by opening his veins.—Gallus, a man who died in the 
act of copulation. Val. Max. 9.—Severus, an epic poet in 
the age of Auguftus, of great genius. He wrote a poem 
on mount ./Etna, and on the death of Cicero. Tacitus. 
CORNE'LIUS, £zop»)Aio;, of y.F.pac, Gr. or lap Heb. a 
horn, and jjAicc, the fun, Gr. i.e. the horn of the fun,] 
A proper name of men. 
COR'NEMUSE, or CornAmute,/ [French.] A 
kind of ruftic flute; a bagpipe. 
COR'NEOUS, adj. [ corneus, Lat.] Horny; of a fub- 
ftance refembling horn.—Such as have corneous or horny 
eyes, as lobfters, and cruftaceous animals, are generally 
dimu.ghted. Brown. 
COR'NER, f. [cornel. We lilt, cornier, Fr. ] An angle; 
a place inclofed by two walls or lines, which would in- 
terfedl each other, if drawn beyond the point where they 
con 
meet. A fecrct or remote place.—It is better to dwell 
in a corner of a houfe-top, than with a brawling woman 
and in a wide houfe. Proverbs, xxv. 24.—I am perfuaded 
that none of thefe things are hidden from him ; for this 
thing was not done in a corner. Acts, xxvi. 26.—Thole 
vices, that lurk in the fecret corners of the foul. Addifon. 
—The extremities; the utmoft limit;, thus every corner 
is the whole or every part : 
Might I but through my prifon, once a dav, 
Behold tills maid, all corners elfe o’ th’ earth 
Let liberty make ufe of. Shakcfpeare. 
COR'NER-STONE.yi The ftone that unites the.two 
walls at the corner; the principal ftone.—See you yon 
corner-Jlone o' til’ Capitol : Shakcfpeare. 
COR'NER-TEETH of a Horse, are the foreteeth 
between the middling teeth and the turtles ; two above 
and two below, on each fide of the jaw, which rtioot 
when the horfe is four years and a half old. 
COR'NERWISE, adv. Diagonally ; with the corner 
in front. 
COR'NET,y. \_corncttc, Fr.] A mufical inftrunient 
blown with the mouth: ufed anciently in war, probably 
in the cavalry.—Ifrael played before the Lord on pfalte- 
ries, and on timbrels, and on cornets. 2 Sam. vi. 5. 
Comets and trumpets cannot reach his ear ; 
Under an adtor’s nofe, he’s never near. Dryden. 
A company or troop of horfe ; perhaps as many as had a 
a cornet belonging to them. This fenfe is now difufed .—■ 
Thefe noblemen were appointed, with fome cornets of 
horfe and bands of foot, to put themfelves beyond the 
liili where the rebels were encamped. Bacon .—The offi¬ 
cer that bears the ftandard of a troop. A military officer 
in a regiment of horfe, anfvvering to that of enfign in 
foot.—Non-commiffioned officers are all thofe below en- 
ligns and cornets. Chejlerjidd.—Cornet of a horfe, is the lovveft 
part of his partem, that runs round the coffin, and is dif- 
tinguiflied by the hair that joins and covers the upper 
part of the hoof; properly coronet. A fcarf anciently 
worn by doctors. A head drefs. Cornet of paper, is de- 
feribed by Skinner to be a cap of paper, made by retailers 
for fmall wares. 
COR'NETC V, f. The port of a cornet in the army..—, 
The army was his original deftinatioii, and a cornetcy of 
horfe his firrt and only commiflion in it. Chef erfeld. 
CORNE'TO, a town.of Italy, in the ftate of the 
church, and province of Patrimonio, the fee of a biftioo, 
immediately held from the pope, and united with the 
fee of Monte Fialcone: thirty-eight miles north-weft of 
Rome. 
CORNET'TA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak :. eighty, miles eaft of Ifpahan. 
GOR'NETTER,/. A blower of the cornet.—So great 
was the rabble of trumpetters, cornetters, and other mu- 
ficians, that even Claudius himfelf might have heard 
them. Hakewill. 
CORNETTI'NO, /! [Ital. ] A fmall or little cornet; 
alfo an odtave trumpet. 
COR'NI SPE'CIES,/. in botany. See Cluytia. 
COR'NICE,/; forniche, Fr.] The higheft projection 
of a wall or column.—The cornice of the Palazzo Farnefe, 
which makes fo beautiful an efte6t below, when viewed 
more nearly, will be found not to have its juft meaiures. 
Dryden. 
The walls were mafly brafs, the cornice high 
Blue metals crown’d, in colours of the Iky. Pope. 
COR'NICE-RING,yi in gunnery, the next ring from 
the muzzle backwards. 
COR'NICLE, f [from cornu, Lat. ] A little horn.—• 
There will be found, on either fide, two black filaments, 
or membranous firings, which extend unto the long and 
ftiorter cornicle, upon protrufton. Brown. 
CORNICULA'RIUS,./. An officer in the ancient Ro¬ 
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