A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

CORNUTUS.
CORNU'TUS, a Roman historian, who, according to the account of Suidas (s. v. Kopvogros,
where, however, the account of the philosopher
L. Annaeus Cornutus and the historian are jumbled together in one article), seems to have been a
contemporary of Livy, but very inferior to him in
point of merit. His great wealth and the circumstance of his having no children, attracted crowds
of admirers around him, but no further particulars
are known about him. (G. J. de Martini, Disput.
lit. de L. Annaeo Cornuto, p. 8, &c.) [L. S.]
CORNU'TUS, L. ANNAEUS ('Avva7os Kop-,ovros), one of the commentators on Aristotle,
concerning whose life but few particulars are known.
The work of Diogenes Ladrtius is believed to have
contained a life of Cornutus, which, however, is
lost. (Salmas. Exercit. Plin. p. 888, &c.) Our
principal sources of information are Suidas (s. v.
Kopvo6Tos)-where, however, only the last words
of the article refer to the philosopher, and all the
rest to Cornutus the historian-and Eudocia (p.
273). Cornutus was born at Leptis in Libya, and
came, probably in the capacity of a slave, into the
house of the Annaei, which was distinguished for
its love of literary pursuits. The Annaei emancipated him (whence his name Annaeus), and he
became the teacher and friend of the poet Persius,
on whose intellectual culture and development he
exercised a very great influence. He was sent
into exile by Nero, for having too freely criticised
the literary attempts of the emperor. (Dion Cass.
lxii. 29.) This happened, according to Hieronymus
in his Chronicle, in A. D. 68. The account of Dion
Cassius furnishes a characteristic feature of the
defiance peculiar to the Stoics of that time, to whom
Cornutus also belonged, as we see from the fifth
satire of Persius. That he was a man of very ex-,
tensive knowledge is attested by the authority of
Dion Cassius, as well as by the works he wrote.
One of the most important of the philosophical
productions of Cornutus was his work on Aristotle's
Categories, which is referred to by the later commentators, Simplicius and Porphyrius. (Schol.
Aristot. p. 48, b. 13, p. 80, a. 22, ed. Brandis;
Simplic. fol. 5, a., ed. Basil.) He seems to have
been very partial to the study of Aristotle, for he
wrote a work against Athenodorus, an opponent of
the Aristotelian philosophy, which, according to
Bake's emendation, bore the title 'Av-Lypa(pi 7rpds
'AOndSwpov. (Simplic. p. 47, b. 22, ed. Brandis;
Porphyr. Expos. Arist. Categ. p. 21, ed. Paris;
Simplic. fol. 15, b.) He also wrote a philosophical
work, entitled 'EXAhlvucK OsoXoyia, which is probably still extant, and the same as the much mutilated treatise H. pt -is T'rv OECsa'4a-ecos, edited
by Gale in his " Opusc. Mythol. Phys. Eth." p.
139. (Ritter, Gesch. d. Philos. iv. p. 202.) Others,
however, consider this treatise as a mere abridgment of the original work of Cornutus. The other
philosophical productions of Cornutus, which were
very numerous, are completely lost, arid not even
their titles have come down to us. He also wrote
on rhetorical and grammatical subjects. Thus he
made, for example, a commentary on all Virgil's
poems, which he dedicated to the poet Silius
Italicus. (Suringar, His. it. O Scholiast. Lat. ii.
p. 116, &c.) According to the fashion of the time,
he also tried his hand in tragedy, in conjunction
with his friend Seneca and his pupils Lucan and
Persius (Welcker, Griech. Trag. iii. p. 1456, &c.);
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writing satires. (Wernsdorf, Po!t. Lat. Min. iii.
p. xvii. 4.) A minute account of his relation to
the poet Persius, as well as of his pupils and his
literary merits, is given by Ger. Jo. de Martini,
Disputatio Litteraria de L. Annaeo Cornuto, Lugd.
Bat. 1825, and in Otto Jahn's Prolegomena to his
edition of Persius, Lipsiae, 1843, pp. viii.-xxvii.
(Comp. Stahr, Aristoteles bei d. Ro6mern, p. 71,
&c.) [A. S.]
CORNU'TUS, CAECI'LIUS, a man of praetorian rank in the reign of Tiberius, who was implicated, in A. D. 24, in the affair between young
Vibius Serenus and his father, and put an end to
his life to escape an unjust verdict. (Tac. Ann. iv,
28.) [L. S.]
CORNU'TUS TERTULLUS was consul
suffectus in A. D. 101 together with Pliny the
Younger, who mentions him several times as a
person of great merit. (Epist. iv. 17, v. 15, vii.
21, 31.) [L. S.]
CORO'BIUS (Kopcoios), a purple-dyer of Itanus in Crete. When the Theraeans were seeking
for some one to lead them to Libya, where the
Delphic oracle had enjoined them to plant a colony,
Corobius undertook to shew them the way. He
accordingly conducted a party of them to the island
of Platea, off the Libyan coast, and there he was
left by them with a supply of provisions, while
they sailed back to Thera to report how matters
stood. As they did not however return to Platea
at the time appointed, Corobius was in danger of
perishing from hunger, but was relieved by the
crew of a Samian ship which had been driven to
the island on its way to Egypt. (Herod. iv. 151,
152.) For the connexion of Crete with Thera,
and of Samos with Cyrene, see Herod. iv. 154,
162-164. [E. E.]
COROEBUS (Kopolgos), a Phrygian, a son of
Mygdon, was one of the heroes that fought in the
Trojan war on the side of the Trojans. He was
one of the suitors of Cassandra, and was slain by
Neoptolemus or Diomedes. (Paus. ix. 27. 1;
Virg. Aen. ii. 341.) [L. S.]
COROEBUS (Kopotgos), an Elean, who gained
a victory in the stadium at the Olympian games in
01. 1. (B. c. 776.) According to tradition, he slew
the daemon Poene, whom Apollo had sent into the
country of the Argives. He was represented on
his tomb in the act of killing Poene, and his statue, which was made of stone, was one of the most
ancient that Pausanias saw in the whole of Greece.
(Paus. i. 43. ~ 7, 44. ~ 1, v. 8. ~ 3, viii. 26. ~ 2;
Strab. viii. p. 355.) [L. S.]
COROEBUS, architect at the time of Pericles, who began the temple of Demeter at Eleusis,
bat died before he had completed his task. (Plut.
Pericl. 13.) [L. U.]
CORO'NA, SILICIUS, a senator, who voted
for the acquittal of Brutus and Cassius, when Octavianus called upon the court to condemn the
murderers of Caesar. The life of Silicius was
spared at the time, but he was afterwards included
in the proscription, and perished in B. c. 43. Plutarch calls him P. Silicius, and Appian Icilius.
(Dion Cass. xlvi. 49; Plut. Brut. 27; Appian, B.
6. iv. 27.)
CORONA'TUS, styled in MSS. Vir Clarissimus, the author of three pieces in the Latin Anthology (ed. Burm. i. 176, v. 155, 157, or Nos.
549-551, ed. Meyer). The first, consisting
of twenty-nine hexameters, is a poetical amplifica