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854 CORIPPUS. CORNELIA.
named Evantus; his wife was the daughter of a p. 247) speaks as if Ruiz had previously published
king; his son was called Peter; he had been em- an edition at Madrid in 1579; to this, or these,
ployed in the East against the Persians, and had succeeded the edition of Thomas Dempster, 8vo.,
been recalled from thence to head an expedition Paris, 1610; of Rivinus, 8vo., Leipzig, 1663; of
against the rebellious Moors. (Procop. 11. cc. and Ritterhusius, 4to., Altdorf, 1664; of Goetzius,
B. G. iv. 34; Johan. i. 197, 380, vii. 576.) 8vo., Altdorf, 1743; and of Foggini, 4to. Rome,
Although the designation and age of Corippus 1777, which completes the list.
are thus satisfactorily ascertained, and the author The Johannis, discovered as described above,
of the Johannis is proved to be the same person was first printed at Milan, 4to., 1820, with the
with the panegyrist of Justinian's nephew, we notes of Mazuchelli.
have no means of deciding with equal certainty Both works will be found in the best form in
whether he is to be identified with the African the new Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
bishop Cresconius who compiled a C nonum Bre- at present in the course of publication at Bonn.
viarium and a Concordia Canonum, the former The Canonum Breviarium and the Concordia
being a sort of index or table of contents to the Canonum are printed entire in the first volume of
latter, which comprises an extensive and important the Bibliotheca Juris Canonici published by Voellus
collection of laws of the Church, arranged not and Justellus at Paris, fol. 1661.
chronologically according to the date of the several The Breviarium was first published at Paris by
councils, but systematically according to the nature Pithou in 1588, 8vo., and is contained in the
of the subjects, and distributed under three hun- Bibliothleca Patrnru Lugdun. vol. ix. [W. R.]
dred titles. Saxe and most writers upon the history CORISCUS (K6dpKo-os), is mentioned, with
of ecclesiastical literature place the prelate in the Erastus, as a disciple of Plato, by Diogenes (iii.
reign of Tiberius III. as low as A. D. 698, this 31, s. 46), who also states, that Plato wrote a
epoch being assigned to him on the double suppo- letter to Erastus and Coriscus. (iii. 36, s. 61.)
sition that he was the composer of the Libyan War They were both natives of Scepsis in the Troas.
and that this was the Libyan War of Leontius; (Diog. 1. c.; Strab. xiii. p. 608.) [P. S.]
but the-latter hypothesis has now been proved to CORNE'LIA. 1. One of the noble women at
be false. The epithets Africani and Grammatici Rome, who was said to have been guilty of poison-attached, as we have already seen, to the name ing the leading men of the state in B. c. 331, the
of Corippus in the editio princeps of the panegyric, first instance in which this crime is mentioned in
the former pointing out his country, which is Roman history. The aediles were informed by a
clearly indicated by several expressions in the slave-girl of the guilt of Cornelia and other Roman
work itself, the lattei a complimentary designation matrons, and in consequence of her information
equivalent at that period to "learned,"-convey they detected Cornelia and her accomplices in the
the sum total of the information we possess con- act of preparing certain drugs over a fire, which
cerning his personal history. they were compelled by the magistrates to drink,
With regard to his merits, the epigrammatic and thus perished. (Liv. viii. 18; comp. Val.
censure of Baillet, that he was a great flatterer Max. ii. 5. ~ 3; August. de Civ. Dei, iii. 17;
and a little poet, is perhaps not absolutely unjust; Diet. of Ant. s. v. Veneficium.)
but if we view him in relation to the state of literature in the age when he flourished, and compare
him with his contemporaries, we may feel inclined 2. Daughter of L. Cinna, one of the great
to entertain some respect for his talents. He was leaders of the Marian party, was married to C.
evidently well read in Virgil, Lucan, and Claudian; Caesar, afterwards dictator. Caesar married her
the last two especially seem to have been his mo- in B. c. 83, when he was only seventeen years of
dels; and hence, while his language is wonderfully age; and when Sulla commanded him to put her
pure, we have a constant display of rhetorical de- away, he refused to do so, and chose rather to be
clamation and a most ambitious straining after deprived of her fortune and to be proscribed himself.
splendour of diction. Nor is the perusal of his Cornelia bore him his daughter Julia, and died beverses unattended with profit, inasmuch as he fore his quaestorship. Caesar delivered an oration
frequently sheds light upon a period of history for in praise of her from the Rostra, when he was
which our authorities are singularly imperfect and quaestor. (Plut. Cues. 1, 5; Suet. Caes. 1, 5, 6;
obscure, and frequently illustrates with great life Vell. Pat. ii. 41.)
and vigour, the manners of the Byzantine court. 3. Sister of the preceding, was married to Cn.
In proof of this, we need only turn to the 45th Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was proscribed by
chapter of Gibbon, where the striking description Sulla in B. c. 82, and killed in Africa, whither he
of Justin's elevation, and the complicated ceremo- had fled. [AHENOBARBUS, No. 6.]
nies which attended his coronation, is merely a Family of the Scipiones.
translation "into simple and concise prose" from
the first two books of Corippus. The text, as 4. The elder daughter of P. Scipio Africanus
might be anticipated from the circumstance that the elder, was married in her father's life-time to
each poem depends upon a single MS., that one of P. Scipio Nasica. (Liv. xxxviii. 57; Polyb. xxxii.
these has never been collated or even seen by any 13.)
modern scholar, and that the other was transcribed 5. The younger daughter of P. Scipio Africanus
at a late period by a most ignorant copyist,-is the elder, was married to Ti. Sempronius Gracchus,
miserably defective; nor can we form any reason- censor B. c. 169, and was by him the mother of
able expectation of its being materially improved, the two tribunes Tiberius and Caius. Gracchus
The Editio Princeps of the Panegyric is gene- espoused the popular party in the commonwealth,
rally marked by bibliographers as having been and was consequently not on good terms with
priuted by Plantin, at Antwerp, in 1581; but Scipio, and it was not till after the death of the
Funccius (De iaerti ac decrepit. L. L. Senectate, latter, according to most accounts, that Gracchus