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ties of gold. (Plin. H. N. xxi. 4, xxxiii. 4.) Any volumina. The Digest was distributed into three
crown fastened with these ribbons, whether real volumina, under the respective names of DigestLm
or artificially represented, was also termed corona Vetus, Infortiatum, and Digestum Novum. The
lemniscata, a specimen of which is given by Caylus fourth volume contained the first nine books of the
(Recueil d'Antiq. vol. v. pl. 57. No. 3). Codex Repetitae Praelectionis. The fifth volume
III. CORONA PACTILIS (Plin. H. N. xxi. 8), contained the Institutes, the Liber Authenticoruin
probably the same as the corona plectilis of Plautus or Novellae, and the three last books of the Codex.
(Bacch. i. 1. 37), corona torta (Propert. iii. 20. 1 8, The division into five volumina appears in the
ed. Kuinoel), plea, (Aul. Gell. xviii. 2), and as oldest editions; but the usual arrangement now is,
the orECpCVoL 7rXeKroi and cvXALerbS (rTeqaYvos of the Institutes, Digest, the Code, and Novellane.
the Greeks. It was made of flowers, shrubs, The name Corpus Juris Civilis was not given to
grass, ivy, wool, or any flexible material twisted this collection by Justinian, nor by any of the
together. glossatores. Savigny asserts that the name was
IV. CORONA SUTILIS, the crown used by the used in the twelfth century: at any rate, it beSalii at their festival. It was made in the first came common from the date of the edition of D.
instance of any kind of flowers sowed together, Gothofredus, 1604.
instead of being wreathed with their leaves and Most editions of the Corpus also contain the folstalks; but subsequently it was confined to the lowing matter:- Thirteen edicts of Justinian, five
rose only, the choicest leaves of which were constitutions of Justin the younger, several constiselected from the whole flower, and sowed together tutions of Tiberius the younger, a series of constiby a skilful hand, so as to form an elegant chaplet. tutions of Justinian, Justin, and Tiberius; 11 3
(Plin. H. Nr xxi. 8.) Novellae of Leo, a constitution of Zeno, and a
V. CORONA TONSA or TONSILIS (Virg. Aen. number of constitutions of different emperors, under
v. 556) was made of leaves only, of the olive or the name of Bao'Aicai AmaTd4etr or Imperatoriae
laurel for instance (Serv. ad Virg. Geosrg. iii. 21), Constitutiones; the Canones Sanctorum et veneand so called in distinction to nexilis and others, randorum Apostolorum, Libri Feudorum, a constiin which the whole branch was inserted. tution of the emperor Frederick II., two of the
VI. CORONA RADIATA (Stat. Thleb. i. 28) was emperor Henry VII. called Extravagantes, and a
the one given to the gods and deified heroes, and Liber de pace Constantiae. Some editions also
assumed by some of the emperors, as a token of contain the fragments of the Twelve Tables, of the
their divinity. It may be seen on the coins of praetorian edict, &c.
Trajan, Caligula, M. Aurelius, Valerius Probus, The Roman law, as received in Europe, consists
Theodosius, &c., and is given in the woodcut an- only of the Corpus Juris, that is, the three compilanexed, from a medal of M. Antonius. tions of Justinian and the Novellae which were issued after these compilations; and further, this Corpus Juris is onlyreceived within the limits and in the
form which was given to it in the school of Bologna.
Accordingly, all the Ante-Justinian law is now
/. "._. Ac%~,N excluded from all practical application; also, the
Greek texts in the Digest, in the place of which
c. ~) the translations received at Bologna are substituted; and fuirther, the few unimportant restorations in the Digest, and the more important restorations in the Codex. Of the three collections of
Novellae, that only is received which is called
Authenticum, and in the abbreviated form which
was given to it at Bologna, called the Vulgata.
But, on the other hand, there are received the
additions made to the Codex in Bologna by the
VII. The crown of vine leaves (pamnpinea) was reception of the Authentica of the Emperors
appropriated to Bacchus (Hor. Carm. iii. 25. 20, Frederick I. and II., and the still more numerous
iv. d. 33), and considered a symbol of ripeness Authentica of Irnerius. The application of the
approaching to decay; whence the Roman knight, matter comprised within these limits of the Corpus
when he saw Claudius with such a crown upon Juris has not been determined by the school of
his head, augured that he would not survive the Bologna, but by the operation of other principles,
autumn. (Tacit. Ann. xi. 4; compare Artemidor. such as the customary law of different European
i. 79.) [A. R.] countries and the development of law. Various
COROINIS (tcopwvis), the cornice of an entabla- titles of the Corpus Juris have little or no appliture, is properly a Greek word signifying anything cation in modern times; for instance, that part of
curved (Schol. ad Aristophl. Plut. 253; Hesych. the Roman law which concerns constitutional forms
s. v.). It is also used by Latin writers, but the and administration. (Savigny, System des lieut.
genuine Latin word for a cornice is cosona or coro- Ronlischen Rechts, vol. i. p. 66.)
ani. (Vitruv. v. 2, 3.) [P. S.] Some editions of the Corpus Juris are published
CORPORA'TI. CORPORA'TIO. [COL- with the glossae, and some without. The latest
LEGIoM.] edition with the glossae is that of J. Fehius, Lugd.
CORPUS. [COLLEGIUM.] 1627, six vols. folio. Of the editions without the
CORPUS JURIS CIVI'LIS. The three great glossae, the most important are -that of Russardus,
compilations of Justinian, the Institutes, the Pan- Lugd. 1560-61, folio, which was several times
dect or Digest, and the Code, together with the reprinted; Contius, Lugd. 1571 and 1581, 15 vols.
Novellae, form one body of law, and were considered 12mo; Lud. Charondae, Antw. ap. Christ. Plantin,
as such by the glossatores, who divided it into five 1575, folio; Dionys. Gothofredi, Lugd. 1583, 4to.