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 686 COR[OLL tiroes fviven to the whole ooantry between Megm and Schoenos. Between Crammjon and Schoenna ^as the village of Sidiu. [Sidcs.] To the east of Crommjon, at the western extremity of the Sdronian rocks, was a temple of Apollo Latoos, which marked the boundaries of the Corinthia and Megaris in the time of Paosanias (i. 44. § 10). This temple mnst have been near the modem village of Kitteta, a little above which tho road leads over the Scironian rocks to Megam. [Mboara.] The best modem authoritieB on the topography of Corinth and its territory are Leake, Morta^ vol. iii. p. 229, foil., Peloponaetkuaj p. 392; Boblaye, JU- chercheSf &c., p. 33, seq.; Cortios, Pelopormuotf vol. ii. p. 514, seq. COIK OF CORDITU. CORrOLI (Kopt6a, Dionys.; Kopt<$XAa, Steph. B. : £th. Kopiokd^oSf Coriolanos), an ancient city of Latium, celebrated from its connection with the legend of C. Marcius Coriolanus. There can be no doabt that it was originally a Latin city. Pliny enamerates it among those which shared in the sacrifiocs on the Alban Mount (iii. 5. s. 9.) Dio- nysius represents Turaus Uerdonius, who endea- voured to excite the Latins to insurrection against Tarquinius Supcrbus, a.s a citizen of Corioli, though Livy, with more probability, calls him a natiro of Aricia. (Dionys. iv. 45*; Liv. i. 50). But when Corioli first appears in Roman history it had fallen into the hands of the Volsdans, from whom it was wrested by the Roman consul Postumus Comlnius at the same time with Longuia and PoUusca, b. c. 493. It is probable that all three were small towns, and it is merely one of the fictions of the poetic legend when Dionysius and Plutarch represent it as the capital or chief city of the Volscians. (Liv. ii. 33 ; Dionys. vi. 92—94 ; Plut. CorioL 6 ; Val. Max. iv. 3. § 4). Its name again appearsi associated with those of Satricum, Longuia and PoUusca, amons; the towns which, according to the legendary history, Coriolanus reduced at the head of the Volscian armies. (Liv. ii. 39 ; Dionys. viii. 19.) It is not improbable that the fact of its conquest by the Volscians at tliis period is historically trae: we have no mention of its subticquent fate : but in B.a 443, it is allud/sd to as if it were no longer in existence, tiie district disputed between Ardea and Aricia being cUimedby the Romans as having formed part of the territory of Corioli. (Liv. iii. 71.) Its name never again appears in history, and it is noticed by Pliny (£ c.) among the cities of Latium of which no trace remained in his day. The site of Corioli, like that of most of the cities of Latium mentioned only in the early Roman his- tory, is very nncertam. We can only infer from the notices of it, that it was not very far distant from Antium, and that its territory adjoined those of which must, without doubt, be a mere ^Ise reading for Kopt6Ka or Kopi({AAa, though tho conruption is of very early date, as it is dtod by Stephanus of By- zantium under this form (s. v. KopIXAo.). CORMASA. Aidea and AiMk ITibby is diaposed to fis it an ft hill called Monte €kme, about 19 miles ffooi Roma, on tho left of the motea road to Porto (TAnao (Antium), near a spot called Aate di Paptu Thia hill, which is the fartlicst extrealfty towards the plain of a ridge that descends from th* Alban Hilla, retains do traces oi ancient buildings : bat Ikft site is one well adapted fw that of an ancient ci^« Gell also speaks of Monte Giove as "the most eligible position that oonld be assigned to Corioli, if there were any ruins to confirm it.** The identi- fication is, however, purely oMijectural : a hill near the Osteria di Cimta^ 4 miles nearer Antinm, anp> posed by Nibby to be the site of Pollosca [PoIj- lubca], would bo at least as plausible a pofiition for CoriolL (Gell, Top. of Borne, pp^ 180—184 ; Nibby, Dmtorm, vol. i. p. 513; Abeken, Miiiel- ltaUe», p. 66.) [£. H. B.] CORIOVALLUM or CORTOVALLUM, a place in the north of Gallia, on a road from Castellnm (Ccueel) to Colooia Agrippina {Coloffne)f between Aduatuca (^Tongem) and Juliacum (JuUera). Tiae Antonine Itin. makes it 16 Gallic leagues from Aduatuca to Coriovallum, and 12 from Coriovallum to Juliacum. Tho distanoes in the Table are the same, but in tho Table the name is Cortovallum or Cortovallium, as it seems. Cortovallum b pertu^is the tme name, as a place named Corten seems to agree very well with the distance from JuUert^ and also to preserve the ancient name. [G. L.] CORISOPITI, a Gallic people, not mentioned hj any autliority earlier than the Kotitia. In the middle ages the diocese of Qfdmper was called Cori- sopitensis, and it is therefore certain that the Cori- sopili occupied the diocese of QfUmper in Brttagne^ Quimper is now in the department of Finittere, I'here are goiid reasons fur supposing that the Co- risopiti were a small tribe dependent on the O^nii, whom Caesar mentions (JB. G. iii. 9). [G. L.] CORITANI (Corttam), in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as having Lindum and Hhoffe (Lmeotm and Leicester), for their towns. [R. G. L.] CCKRiUM (K^ptoi^: Etk, Kofrfiirios, Steph. B.: Kwmd)^ a town of Crete, near which was a temple to Athena (comp. Paus. viii. 21. §4; CicAlZ>. iii. 23) and lake (Af/im} Kopi)<ria). As there is no other lake in the i^dond, Mr. Pashley (TVysc. vol. i. p. 73; comp. Hoeck, Kreta, vol. L p. 432; Sieber, Reiee, vol. ii. p. 467), from the identity of this phy- sical feature, fixes the position near Uie small Uke Kuma, at the foot of the hills on the S. edge of the plain which runs along the shore from Armfro eastward. [E. B. J.] CO'RIUS (lUpios, Mardan, p. 20; Ptol. vi. 8. § 4 ; Coros, Pomp. MeU, iii. 8. § 4), a small river of Carmania, which flows into the Persian Gulf, op- posite the Island Ooracta (now Keiehm). It has been supposed that it is the same as that now called the Shur or Dio Rtid, [V. j CORMA (Tac. Arm. xiL 14), a small stream of Assyria, which Forbiger ccmsiders to have been one of the tributaries of the Dioda. [V.] CO'RMASA or CURMASA (KJp/Mura), a phuw which the Roman consul Cn. Manlius came to in his march described by Livy (xxxviii. 15). It is written Curmasa in Polybius (xxii. 19). The Table gives a road from Laodiceia on the Lycns to Pence in Pam- phylia. But Leake {Aeia Minor^ p. 154) renutrks that " although the direct distance (between I^o* diceia and V^rgi) is npwanls of 100 geog. mileai, there are on^ 46 M. P. marked in the TaUe: name^y^
 * The name is written in tliis passage Kop^AAo,