Corôna, The signe of Ariadne in the firmament, which hath 9. stars in the forme of a crowne.
Corone, A towne in Greece in the partes nowe named Morea.
Corôno, corónas, pen. prod. coronâre. Plin. To crowne: to set a garlande on.Aditu custode coronare.Virg.To beset the entry round, &c.Cratera coronare.Virg.To couer or to set garlandes on the cuppes. Collum coronat pluma. Lucret. Sylua coronat aquas.Ouid.A wood compasseth the waters.Victoria coronat fronde aliquem. Horat.
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cŏrōna (in the ante-Aug. per. sometimes written chorona, acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 20; cf. the letter C), ae, f., = korw/nh, a garland, chaplet, wreath.I.Lit., of natural or artificial flowers, etc. (very freq. used for personal adornment at festivals, when sacrificing, or as a gift for friends, etc., for ornamenting the images of the gods, edifices, victims, the dead, etc.), Lucr. 5, 1399; Lex XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5, 7; Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 16; Cic. Fl. 31, 75; id. Leg. 2, 24, 60; Liv. 23, 11, 5; 38, 14, 5; Curt. 4, 2, 2; 4, 4, 5; Hor. C. 1, 26, 8; id. Ep. 2, 2, 96; Tac. A. 2, 57; 15, 12; 16, 4; id. H. 2, 55 et saep.: coronas bibere, i. e.
to throw into the cup leaves plucked from the garlands
, Plin. 21, 3, 9, 12. Vid. the artt. sacerdotalis, funebris, sepulchralis, convivialis, nuptialis, natalitia, Etrusca, pactilis, plectilis, sutilis, tonsa or tonsilis, radiata, and pampinea.—Poet.: perenni fronde corona, i. e.
immortal, poetic renown
, Lucr. 1, 119.—As emblem of royalty, a crown: regni corona = diadema, Verg. A. 8, 505. —Concerning the different kinds of garlands or crowns given to soldiers as a prize of bravery (castrensis or vallaris, civica, muralis, navalis or rostrata, obsidionalis, triumphalis, oleagina, etc.), v. Gell. 5, 6; Dict. of Antiq.; and the artt. castrensis, civicus, muralis, etc.—2. Esp.: corona fidei, the crown of martyrdom (eccl. Lat.), Cypr. Ep. 58; 60; Lact. Epit. 72, 23; and corona alone, Lact. 4, 25, 10; id. Mort. Pers. 16, 11.—B. Sub coronā vendere, t. t. of the lang. of business, to sell captives as slaves (since they were crowned with chaplets; cf. Caelius Sabinus ap. Gell. 7, 4, 3; and corono, I.), Caes. B. G. 3, 16; Liv. 42, 63, 12; so, sub coronā venire, id. 9, 42, 8; 38, 29, 11; 41, 11, 8: sub coronā venundari, Tac. A. 13, 39; id. H. 1, 68: sub coronā emere, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4.—C. As a constellation.1.The northern crown (according to the fable, the crown of Ariadne transferred to heaven; v. Ariadna), Cic. Arat. 351 sq.; Caes. German. Arat. 71; called Gnosia stella Coronae, Verg. G. 1, 222: Cressa Corona, Ov. A. A. 1, 558: Ariadnea Corona, Manil. 5, 21; cf. also Ov. M. 8, 181; Plin. 18, 26, 60, 224 al.— 2.The southern crown, Caes. German. Arat. 391.— II.Meton., of objects in the form of a crown.A. Most freq., a circle of men, an assembly, crowd, multitude (esp. of judicial assemblies), Cic. Fl. 28, 69; id. Phil. 2, 44, 112; id. Mil. 1, 1; id. Fin. 2, 22, 74; Quint. 12, 10, 74; Suet. Aug. 93 al.; Cat. 53, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53; Ov. M. 13, 1 al.—Hence, 2.Milit. t. t., the besiegers round a hostile place, the line of siege or circumvallation, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; Liv. 10, 43, 1; 23, 44, 3; Curt. 4, 6, 10 al.—Also, a circle of men for the defence of a place, Liv. 4, 19, 8.—B. In arch., the cornice, Vitr. 5, 2; Plin. 36, 24, 59, 183.— C. In the agrimensores, an elevated ridge of land as a boundary line, Cato, R. R. 6, 3; Front. Col. 114 and 131 Goes.—D.The hairy crown over the horse's hoof, Col. 6, 29, 3; Veg. Art. Vet. 1, 13, 1.—E. Montium, a circular ridge of mountains, Plin. 6, 20, 23, 73.—F.The halo round the sun (for the Gr. a(/lws), Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 1.
Cŏrōnē, ēs, f., = *korw/nh, a city on the west coast of the Messenian bay, Liv. 39, 49, 1; Plin. 4, 5, 7, 15.—Hence, adj.: Cŏrō-naeus, a, um, = *korwnai=os, Coronean: sinus, now the Golfo de Coron, Plin. 4, 5, 7, 15.
cŏrōno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [corona], to furnish with a garland or crown, to crown, wreathe (class., esp. freq. in the poets). I.Lit., aliquid or aliquem: templa, Ov. M. 8, 264; cf.: postes lauro, Quint. 8, 6, 32: aras, Prop. 3 (4), 10, 19: deos fragili myrto, Hor. C. 3, 23, 15: puppim, Ov. F. 4, 335: cratera, Verg. G. 2, 528 (cf.: magnum cratera coronā Induit, id. A. 3, 525); so, crateras magnos statuunt et vina coronant, id. A. 1, 724; 7, 147 Forbig. ad loc. (cf. Nitsch. ad Hom. Od. 1, 419; Buttman, Lexil. 2, p. 100; others, less correctly, render, fill to the brim, comparing krath=ras e)peste/yanto potoi=o, Hom. Il. 1, 470): epulae quas inibant propinqui coronati, Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63.—Mid.: hederā coronantur Bacchico ritu, Macr. S. 1, 18, 2. —In the Gr. constr.: coronatus malobathro Syrio capillos, Hor. C. 2, 7, 7: eodem anno (459 A. U. C.) coronati primum ob res bello bene gestas ludos Romanos spectaverunt, Liv. 10, 47, 3; cf. of the crowning of victors (soldiers, poets, pugilists, etc.), Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 64; Quint. 10, 1, 66; 11, 2, 11; Plin. 15, 4, 5, 19 al.; so also comoediam de sententiā judicum,
to award the prize to it
, Suet. Claud. 11.—Unusual constr.: tunc de oratoribus coronatus, i. e.
crowned as victor in the contest with the orators
, Suet. Dom. 13 (cf.: triumphare de aliquo, s. v. triumpho, I. A.).—And in the Gr. manner: quis ... Magna coronari contemnat Olympia?
to be crowned in the Olympic games
, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 50.—To the crowning of captives for sale (cf. corona, I. B.) reference is made in the passage: ut coronatus veniat, Cato ap. Gell. 6 (7), 4, 5.—B.Trop., to receive as the prize of victory: nomine novo coronari, Plin. 22, 5, 5, 10.—II.Meton., to surround, encompass, enclose something in a circular form, to wreathe: cervices collumque, Lucr. 2, 802: Silva coronat aquas cingens latus omne, Ov. M. 5, 388; so id. ib. 9, 335: castra suggesta humo (previously praecingit), Prop. 4 (5), 4, 8; cf.: omnem abitum custode, Verg. A. 9, 380; and: nemus densā statione, Stat. Th. 2, 526: solem itineribus (stellarum), Vitr. 9, 4.