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 CORONTA. ^ith the Boeotuui shield on one side, and on the other a full-fiiced mask or Gor^jronian head, with the epi- graph KOPO. (DodweU, toI. L p. 247; Leake, Northern Greece, voL ii. p. 182, seq. ; Forchham- mer, HeUemkOj p. 185.) 2. A town of Thessalj in Phthiotis, from which the Boeotian Conmeia probablj derived its name. It is placed by Leake at TjeiOmd, (Strab. is. p. 434 ; Ptol. iU. 13. § 46 ; Steph. B. «. v. ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 471.) CORONTA (rh K6(!ovTa : £th. Kopomevt: near Prddkromo), a small town in the interior of Acar- nania, probably lying between Metropolis and Old Oenia. [Obniadab.] At a mile from Prddhromo Leake disooTered on an insulated hill the ruins of Hellenic walls, which are probably the remains of Coronta. (Thuc. IL 102; Steph. B. «.v. ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol iii. p^ 614.) CORO'NUS MONS(KofH»v^s,Ptol.TL2. § 4. vi.5. § l,vi.9. §§3, 4), the eastern part cf the great chain of moontams which extends along the sonthem shore of the Caspian Sea, and of which Orontes, M. Jaso- ninm, and M. Coronos were the principal peaks. Gonnns is the most eastern of the three, and was on the borders of Hyrcaniaand Parthia. It is probably represented now by the mountains between IMn^- jfhan and Aiterdbad, [Y.] COROPISSUS (KopoTuro-^s: Eik. KoporuraAs), as the name appears on the coins. It is Coropassus in Strabo (p. 568, 663), who says that the boun- dary between the Lycaoniaas and the Cappadodans is tiie tract betweoi the Tillage Coropassus in Ly- caonia and Gareatbyra, a small town of the Cappa- dodans. The distance between these two small places was about 120 stadia. In the second of these two passages the name of the Cappadodan town is written Garsaura, which is the true name. The place is therefore near the western border of Cappa- doda, south of the salt lake of Tatta. Adopissus in Ptolemy (v. 6) is probably the same place. [G.L.] COROS. [CoEius; Ctbcs Pebsidis.] CORPILLI, a Thracian tribe on the river Hebrus (Plin. iv. 18), which inhabited the district of Cor- piatica (KcfnnaXuHiy Ptoi. iii. 11. § 9). [L. S.] CORRAGUM, a fortress of IDyria, of uncertain site, taken by the Romans in b. a 200, along with the two other forte of Geranium and Oigessus. (Lhr. xzzi 27.) CO^EAE. [CoRAasiAE.] CORSELA (Kopatla). 1. A town of Boeotia, somedmes induided in (^mntian Locris, was the first place which the traveller reached alter crossing Mt. Khkmd firam Cyitonea. In the Sacred War it was taken by the Phodans, along with Orchomenus and Coroneia. In the plain bdow, the river Platanius jdned the aea. Ite site is probably represented by the village Protkyndj on the heighte above which are the remains of an andent acropolis. (Pans. iz. 24. § 5; Died, zvi 58; Dem. de Fait. Leg, p. 385; called Xopaia by Steph. B. t.v.; Leake, Northern Greece, toL il p. 184 ; Forchhammer, Edlenika, pi 179.) 2. Scyhz mentions YLopffim as a port of Boeotia on the Corinthian gulf. It appears £ram Pliny that there was a second town of this name in the westem part of Boeotia, and that it was distinguished from the other by the name of Thebae Corsicae. ('* The- bu quae Conicae oognominatae sunt juzte Helico- nem," Plin. iv. 3. s. 4.) It is probably represented by the modem Khdtia, (Leakey Norikam Greece^ Yol. {L p. 521.) VOL. I. CORSICA. 689 CORSI (KofHTtoi or Koparol, Ptd.), a people of Sardinia, enumerated both by Pliny and Ptolemy among the tribes of the interior of that island. Their name indicates that they must have emigrated from the neighbouring island of Corsica, which is ex- pressly stated by Pausanias, who adds that tlie strength of their mountain abodes enabled them to maintain their independence agunst the Cartha- ginians. In accordance with this, Ptolemy places them in the northern part of Sardinia, adjoining the Tibulatii, who inhabited ite KE. extremity, near to the strait that separates it from Corsica. (Plin. iii. 7. s. 13 ; PtoL iii. 3. § 6 ; Pans. x. 17. § 8.) [E. H. B.] CORSICA, called by the Greeks CYRNUS (Kipvos : Etk. KOptnos and Kvpvcub; : later Greek writers, however, use also Kopffls and KopalKw, Dionys. Per. ; Strab. ; PtoL, &c.: the Latin Ethnic is Corsns, which Ovid uses also for the adjective : Corsicanus is the a4jective form in Servius and So- linus), one of the prindpal islands in the Mediter- ranean, situated to the N. of Sardinia, from which it was separated only by a narrow strait. It was gene- rally reckoned the third in magnitude of tlie seven great islands in that sea (Alexins, ap, £itstath. ad XHonjfi. Per. 4 ; Strab. ii. pw 123), though other authors gave it only the sixth place. (Died. v. 17 ; Scylax, § 113.) Pliny says that it was 150 miles long, and for the most part 50 broad, and gives ite drcumference at 325 miles; Strabo, on the other hand, stetes ite length at 160 miles, and its greatest breadth at 70. ^lin. iii. 6. s. 12 ; Strab. v. p. 224.) Both these stetemente exceed the truth; the real length of the island is just about 100 geo- graphical (125 Roman) miles, while ite breadth no- whoe exceeds 46 geographical or 58 Roman miles. Both Strabo and Diodonis reckon it 300 stadia dis- tant from the island of Aethalia or Ilva, which is very little more than the truth; the former correctly stetes that it is visible from the munland near Popu- lonium, but he was misled by his guides when they led him to believe that Sardinia was so too. The northern extremity of Corsica, formed by a narrow ridge of mountains, extending like a great promon- tory near 30 miles from the main body of the island, is distinctly visible from many pdnte on the coast of Etruria, and even from that of Liguria. The dis- tance of this part of the island from Vada Vola- terrana is correctly given by Pliny at 62 M. P., but it is not more than 58 from Populonium, which is the nearest point on the mainland. (Plin. I. c; Strab. V. p. 223; Diod. t. 13.) Almost the whole of Corsica is occuped by a range of lofty and ragged mountains, extending firom N. to S. from one extremity of the island to the other. The highest summite of this range attain an ele- vation of from 8000 to 9000 feet, and are in conse- quence covered with snow during the greater part of the year; their sides are furrowed by deep torrente, and intersected by narrow, crooked vdleys or ravines, while they are covered almost throughout with dense foreste. The vast extent of these, and the magni- tude and excellence of the timber which they pro- duced, have been celebrated in all ages. (Theophrast. E, P. V. 8. §§1,2; Dionys. Per. 460; Diod. I c.) But notwithstanding this advantage, as well as the excellent porte with which the W. and S. coaste of the island abound, ite rugged and inaccessible nature rendered it in andent, as they still do in modem times, one of the wildest and least dvilised portions of Southem Europe. Theophrastus says that the whole island was " shaggy and savage," from the YT