Cornu, Indeclinabile, & hoc Cornum, & hic Cornus, huius cornus secundum Priscianum. Plin. A horne. The corner or winding of a riuer. The wing of a battayle.Cornibus armata bestia. Ci. Mutilus cornibus. Cæsar. Æria capræ cornua.Ouid.Arborea ceruorum cornua.Virg.Braunched hornes.Camura cornua.Virg.Crooked hornes.Flexum circum caua tempora cornu.Ouid.Bending about the temples like rammes hornes.Lata cornua.Senec. Prælonga. Lucret. Cornua ramosa dedit natura capreis, sed parua, nec decidua: Conuoluta in anfractum arietum generi: rupicapris in dorsum adunca, damis in aduerlum: Erecta autem, rugarúmque ambitu contorta, & in leue fastigium exacuta (vt lyras diceres) strepsiceroti. Plin. Ramosa cornua cerui.Virg.Braunched hornes.Recurua cornua.Ouid.Crumpehornes bending backe.Recurua in tergum coroua.Ouid. Rigidum cornu. Ouid.Summis cornibus vix cerui extant.Virg.Scant one might see the toppes of their hornes.Terribili cornu petit irritamina sua taurus.Ouid.The bull striketh or runneth at with his hornes.Frons hœdo turgida cornibus primis. Horat. Curuare bima cornua fronte.Virg.Decernere inter se cornibus.Virg.To fight w their hornes.Ductus corou hircus.Virg. Exectum cornu. Horat. Explorare cornua in truncis. Lucan. To assay or trie theyr hornes.Fregit in arbore cornu.Ouid.He brake his horne against the tree. Gerere cornua fronte. Ouid.Incursare aduersis cornibus. Plin. To pushe or ruune one against the other with their hornes.Lacerare cornua. Hórat. Inflexa in se cornua. Plin. Inter se aduersis luctantur cornibus hœdi.Virg. Sicciora corpora cornu. Catul. Bodies drier than a horne. Coactum cornu Phœbes. Lucan. Ful moone when the corners ioyne.Circuitis cornibus orbÊ alligat Phœbe. Sen. It is ful mooneCornua lunaria.Ouid.The poynts or corners of the moone.Lunata cornua. Plin. Obscurum Lunæ cornu.Virg.Obtusa Lunæ cornua.Virg.The corners of the moone somewhat duske.It Luna cornibus puris.Senec.Tenuius Lunæ cornu.Stat.Velatis cornibus Luna.Val. Flac. Coeunt tota cornua, efficiúntq; orbem.Ouid.The moone is at full.Tertia iam Lunæse cornua lumine complent.Virg.This is the thirde moneth.Euanescunt cornua Lunæ.Ouid.Iunctis cornibus implerat orbem Luna.Ouid.The moone was at full.Luna suos ignes coeunte cornu iungit.Senec. Idem. Reparat noua cornua Phœbe.Ouid.It was new moone. Cornu portus.Cic.The corner of a hauen.Angustis inclusum cornibus æquor.Ouid. Cornua fluminum.Virg.The corners or crooked turnings of a riuer.Elatis cornibus amnes.Val. Flac.Terrificis vndans cornibus Hebrus.Val. Flac. Cornua montium.The points or toppes of hilles. vt, Intorta cornua Parnassi Stat. Cornua in prælio, pro vtraque parte exercitus. Ter. The wings of the battayle.Equites pro cornibus locare. Quint. To set horsemen in the winges.Vtrinque cornua promouere. Quint. Acies inclinato cornu ruebat Silius. Cornua disputationis alicuius commouere.Cicer.To conface the principall arguments of ones reasoning. Cornua antennarum. Virgil. The two endes of the sayle yardes. Ardua cornua antennarum demittere. Ouid.Extendere cornua. Lucan. Cornua obuertere alicui in re secunda.Plaut.In prosperitie to turne his hornes against one to hurt him. Cornua addere pauperi. Vide ADDO. Cornu, arcus.Virg.A bow, or the horne of a bowe.Flexile cornu curuare Ouid.To bende his bowe.Lentare cornua.Stat. Idem. Lenta flectere cornua. Idem. Ouid. Vngula solida cornu.Virg.Whole hoofed. Cornua. Varro. A horne: a trumpet.Rauco strepuerunt cornua cantu.Virg.Inflexo tibia cornu.Ouid. Tibia inflato cornu. Ouid.Torua cornua. Persius. Magna cornua sonare ac vincere tubas. Horat. Occanere cornua ac tubas Sentius iussit.Tacit.
Cornus, huius cotnus vel corni, f. g. quartæ & secundæ declinationis. Plin. A tree whereof is the male and the female, the male is not in England, and may be called long cherye tree. The female of some is called dogge tree, that bouchers make prickes of.-& bona bello Cornus.Virg.Good to make speares of.Armata ferro gracili cornus.Senec.A darte hauing a head of yron.Validam cornum torquere. Sil.
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cornū, ūs (so Caes. B. C. 3, 68 Dint.; Luc. 7, 217; Plin. 28, 11, 46, 163 et saep.; Curt. 4, 12, 11 al.; ū in the connection cornu bubuli and cornu cervini; also Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 5, 76; Veg. Art. Vet. 1, 20, 1 al.; cf. esp. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 355), n. (access. form cornum, i, n., Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 14; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 5 Fleck.; Lucr. 2, 388; Ov. M. 2, 874; Scrib. Comp. 141; Gell. 14, 6, 2 al.; gen. plur. cornorum, Scrib. Comp. 60. —An access. form cornus, ūs, has been assumed on account of the rel. masc. in the passage: nares similes cornibus iis, qui, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149, if the reading is correct.—The dat. sing. apparently never used; for in the connection: laevo cornu Cotys rex praeerat ... dextro cornu praepositus C. Licinius Crassus, Liv. 42, 58, 6 and 7, the supposition of the abl. is more in acc. with the usage of Livy; cf.: Antipatrum in laevo praeposuit, id. 37, 41, 1 et saep.) [kindred with ke/ras, and Germ. and Engl. horn; cf. also carina, cervus], a horn.I.Lit., a hard and generally crooked growth upon the head of many mammiferous animals (very freq. in all periods and species of composition), Plin. 11, 37, 45, 123 sq.; Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; of a bullock, Lucr. 5, 1033; 5, 1324; Cat. 64, 111; Ov. M. 9, 186; Hor. C. 3, 27, 72; id. S. 1, 5, 58 et saep.; also of the constellation Taurus, Ov. M. 2, 80; of the ram, id. ib. 5, 328; and the constellation Aries, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 111; of the he-goat, Verg. E. 9, 25; of kids, id. G. 2, 526 al.—Of the antlers of a stag, Ov. M. 3, 194; 10, 111; Verg. A. 10, 725 al.: Cornu Copiae (less correctly, but freq. in late Lat., as one word, Cornūcōpĭae, and twice Cornūcōpĭa, ae, f., Amm. 22, 9, 1; 25, 2, 3), acc. to the fable, the horn of the goat Amalthea placed in heaven, Greek *ke/ras *)amalqei/as (v. Amalthea), the emblem of fruitfulness and abundance, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 5; Gell. 14, 6, 2; cf. Hor. C. 1, 17, 16; id. C. S. 60; id. Ep. 1, 12, 29; Ov. M. 9, 88.—B.Meton., of things similar to horn in substance or form, or made of horn.1. That which is similar to horn in substance. a.A hoof, Cato, R. R. 72; Verg. G. 3, 88; Sil. 13, 327.—b. Of the bills of birds, Ov. M. 14, 502.—c.The horny skin covering the eye, Plin. 11, 37, 55, 148.—d.A horny excrescence on the head, a wart, Hor. S. 1, 5, 58.— Far more freq., 2. That which is similar to a horn in form, a projecting extremity, the point or end of any object. a.The tooth or tusk of an elephant, ivory, Varr. L. L. 7, 39 Müll.; Plin. 8, 3, 4, 7; 18, 1, 1, 2: cornu Indicum, Mart. 1, 73, 4.—b.The horns of the moon, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 122, 2; Verg. G. 1, 433; Ov. M. 1, 11; 2, 117 et saep.—c.The branches of a river, Ov. M. 9, 774.—Hence, the river-gods were represented with horns, Verg. G. 4, 371; Mart. 10, 7 et saep.; cf.: corniger, tauriformis, etc., and v. Lidd. and Scott under ke/ras, V.—d.The arm of the shore forming a harbor, a tongue of land, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 14, 1; Ov. M. 5, 410; Plin. 4, 21, 35, 113.—e.The extremity or end of the sailyards, Verg. A. 3, 549; 5, 832; Ov. M. 11, 476; Hor. Epod. 16, 59; Sil. 14. 389.—f.The cone of a helmet in which the crest was placed: cornua cristae, Verg. A. 12, 89: alterum cornu galeae, Liv. 27, 33, 2.—g.The end of the stick around which books were rolled, usually ornamented with ivory, Tib. 3, 1, 13; Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 8; Mart. 11, 107. —h.The side of a bow in the form of ahorn, Ov. M. 1, 455; 5, 56; 2, 603.—i.The horn-shaped side of the cithara (perh. the sounding-board), Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149 fin.— k.The top or summit of a mountain: cornua Parnasi, Stat. Th. 5, 532; Curt. 3, 4, 4. —1.The point, end, extremity, wing of a place, Liv. 25, 3, 17; Tac. A. 1, 75; Plin. 34, 6, 12, 26 al.—m.The wing of an army (very freq.), Caes. B. G. 1, 52 (three times); 2, 23; 2, 25; 7, 62 (twice); Liv. 9, 40, 3 sq(seven times).— (b).Transf.: cornua disputationis tuae commovere, i. e.
to drive back
, Cic. Div. 2, 10, 26 (v. the passage in connection).—n.The feeler or claw of an insect, Plin. 9, 30, 50, 95; 9, 31, 51, 99 al. —o.The stiff hair of the Germans: quis stupuit Germani lumina, flavam Caesariem et madido torquentem cornua cirro?Juv. 13, 165.—3. Of objects made of horn. a.A bow, Verg. E. 10, 59; Ov. M. 5, 383; Sil. 2, 109 al.—b.A bugle-horn, a horn, trumpet (cornua, quod ea, quae nunc sunt ex aere, tunc fiebant bubulo e cornu, Varr. L. L. 5, 117 Müll.), Lucil. ap. Non. p. 265, 5; Lucr. 2, 620; Verg. A. 7, 615; Ov. M. 1, 98; 3, 533; Hor. C. 1, 18, 14; 2, 1, 17; Juv. 2, 90; 6, 315.—Connected with tubae, Cic. Sull. 5, 17; Tac. A. 1, 68; 2, 81, cf. Dict. of Antiq., s. v. cornu.—In a sarcastic double sense with a.: dum tendit citharam noster, dum cornua Parthus, Poët. ap. Suet. Ner. 39 (v. the passage in connection).—c.The sides of the lyre, originally consisting of two horns, giving resonance to the strings, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; 2, 59, 149.—d.A lantern, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 185; cf. Lucr 2, 388; and Plin. 11, 16, 16, 49.—e.An oil cruet, Hor S. 2, 2, 61.—f.A funnel, Verg. G. 3, 509; Col. 6, 2, 7 al.—II.Trop., as an emblem of power, courage, strength, might (the figure taken from bullocks. Also in Heb. a very freq. metaph.; cf. Gesen. Lex. s. v. , p. 906, 6; poet.): ne in re secundā nunc mi obvortat cornua, Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 5: venerunt capiti cornua sera meo, Ov. Am. 3, 11,: tunc pauper cornua sumit,
gains strength, courage
, id. A. A. 1, 239; cf.. tu (sc. amphora) addis cornua pauperi, etc., Hor. C. 3, 21, 18.—Hence Bacchus, as a giver of courage, is represented with horns, Tib. 2, 1, 3; Hor. C. 2, 19, 30; v. Bacchus, I.; cf. of a river-god, I. B. 2. c. supra.