When father Brute and Cor’ineus set foot On the white island first.

Southey, Madoc, vi. (1805).

Cori’neus had that province utmost west.  To him assigned.

Spenser, Faery Queen, ii. 10 (1500).

Drayton makes the name a word of four syllables, and throws the accent on the last but one.

Which to their general then great Corine’us had.

Drayton, Polyolbion, i. (1612).

CORINNA, a Greek poetess of Boeotia, who gained a victory over Pindar at the public games (fl.  B.C. 490).

  ... they raised
  A tent of satin, elaborately wrought
  With fair Corinna’s triumph.

Tennyson, The Princess, iii.

Corinna, daughter of Gripe, the scrivener.  She marries Dick Amlet.  Sir John Vanbrugh, The Confederacy (1695).

  See lively Pope advance in jig and trip
  “Corinna,” “Cherry,” “Honeycomb,” and “Snip;”
  Not without art, but yet to nature true,
  She charms the town with humor just yet new.

  Churchill, Roseiad (1761).

Corinne’ (2 syl.) the heroine and title of a novel by Mde. de Stael.  Her lover proved false, and the maiden gradually pined away.

A Corinthian, a rake, a “fast man.”  Prince Henry says (1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4.) “[They] tell me I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle.”

CORINTHIAN TOM, “a fast man,” the sporting rake in Pierce Egan’s Life in London.

CORIOLA’NUS (Caius Marcius), called Coriolanus from his victory at Cori’oli.  His mother was Vetu’ria (not Volumnia), and his wife Volumnia (not Virgilia).  Shakespeare has a drama so called.  La Harpe has also a drama entitled Coriolan, produced in 1781.—­Livy, Annals, ii. 40.

I remember her [Mrs. Siddons] coming down the stage in the triumphal entry of her son Coriolanus, when her dumb-show drew plaudits that shook the house.  She came alone, marching and beating time to the music, rolling ... from side to side, swelling with the triumph of her son.  Such was the intoxication of joy which flashed from her eye and lit up her whole face, that the effect was irresistible.—­C.M.  Young.

CORITA’NI, the people of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, and Northamptonshire.  Drayton refers to them in his Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).

CORMAC I., son of Conar, a Cael, who succeeded his father as “king of Ireland,” and reigned many years.  In the latter part of his reign the Fir-bolg (or Belgae settled in the south of Ireland), who had been subjugated by Conar, rebelled, and Cormac was reduced to such extremities that he sent to Fingal for aid.  Fingal went with a large army, utterly defeated Colculla “lord of Atha,” and re-established Cormac in the sole possession of Ireland.  For this service Cormac gave Fingal his daughter Roscra’na for wife, and Ossian was their first son.  Cormac I. was succeeded by his son Cairbre; Cairbre by his son Artho; Artho by his son Cormac II. (a minor); and Cormac II., (after a short interregnum) by Ferad-Artho.—­Ossian.