cor

cor (ŏ, e. g. Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 28; id. P. 1, 3, 32), cordis ( gen. plur. cordium, Vulg. Jer. 4, 4, and 1 Cor. 4, 5; acc. to Fragm. Bob. Nom. et Pron. p. 132, also cordum, but without example), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. hrid; Gr. kardia; Germ. Herz; Engl. heart], the heart (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

Lit., the heart, as the chief source of the circulation of the blood, and so of life, Cels. 4, 1; cf. Plin. 11, 37, 69. §§

181 and 182: cor tineosum, opinor, habeo,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 62:

num igitur censes, ullum animal, quod sanguinem habeat, sine corde esse posse?

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

cordis globus aut oculi,

Lucr. 4, 119 et saep.— Also for the Greek kardia, the cardiac extremity of the stomach, Lucr. 6, 1150; Hor. S. 2, 3, 28; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 161.—

Meton. (pars pro toto; cf. caput, II.), a person:

lecti juvenes, fortissima corda,

Verg. A. 5, 729:

aspera,

id. ib. 10, 87.—Of animals:

canum,

Lucr. 5, 864.—A term of endearment, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 154 (cf. corculum).—

Trop.

The heart, as the seat of feeling, emotion, etc., heart, soul, feeling ( poet.):

videas corde amare inter se,

from the heart, cordially, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 60:

aliquem amare corde atque animo suo,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 75:

facinus magnum timido cordi credere,

id. Ps. 2, 1, 3:

neque meo Cordi quomquam esse cariorem hoc Phaedriā,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 121:

corde tremit,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 8:

cura ex corde excessit,

Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12:

cor meum spes laudis percussit,

Lucr. 1, 922:

spectantis tangere querelā,

Hor. A. P. 98:

nequeunt expleri corda tuendo Terribilis oculos,

Verg. A. 8, 265; cf. id. ib. 9, 55:

curis acuere mortalia corda,

id. G. 1, 123; 1, 330; id. A. 1, 302.—

Cordi est alicui, it lies at one's heart, it pleases, is pleasing, agreeable, or dear: quod tibi magnopere cordi est, mihi vehementer displicet, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 88, 32; 89, 1:

utut erga me est meritus, mihi cordi est tamen,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 110; Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

uterque utriquest cordi,

id. Phorm. 5, 3, 17:

idque eo mihi magis est cordi, quod, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 4, 15; id. Quint. 30, 93; id. Or. 16, 53; Liv. 1, 39, 4; 8, 7, 6; Hor. C. 1, 17, 14 al.; Cato ap. Macr. S. 3, 5 fin. —With inf.:

facere aliquid,

Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 10:

exstinguere vestigia urbis, etc.,

Liv. 28, 20, 7:

subigi nos,

id. 9, 1, 4 al. —

Cordi habere aliquid, to have at heart, to lay great stress upon, to value (post-class.), Gell. 2, 29, 20; 17, 19, 6; 18, 7, 3.—

Acc. to the ancients (cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18) as the seat of wisdom, understanding, heart, mind, judgment, etc. (most freq. in ante-class. poets): quem (Hannibalem) esse meum cor Suasorem summum et studiosum robore belli, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 2, 9 (Ann. 374 Vahl.):

Ego atque in meo corde, si est quod mihi cor, Eam rem volutavi,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 3 dub. (bracketed by Ritschl):

quantum ego nunc corde conspicio meo,

id. Ps. 3, 1, 3:

quicquam sapere corde,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 65; Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 7; Lucr. 1, 737; 5, 1107:

nec enim sequitur, ut cui cor sapiat, ei non sapiat palatus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24 Madv.; cf. id. ib. 2, 28, 91:

stupor cordis,

id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: cor Zenodoti, Fur. Bib. ap. Suet. Gram. 11; cf.:

cor Enni,

Pers. 6, 10; cf., in a play on the meaning, I. A.: si pecudi cor defuisset, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 77 fin.

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• Good wine gladdens a person's heart

• Wine and music gladden the heart

ENG heart-nosed false vampire

NLD hartneusvleermuis

GER Herznasenfledermaus

FRA megaderme du coeur

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

cor-rādo ( conr-), si, sum, 3, v. a., to scrape or rake together (rare; mostly anteand post-class.).

Lit.:

corpora,

Lucr. 6, 304; cf. id. 6, 444.—Esp., of money, Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 26; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 34; Dig. 26, 7, 4 al.;

and of the collecting together of one's effects for sale,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 89. —

Trop., to procure with difficulty:

fidem dictis nostris,

Lucr. 1, 402.

cor-rīdĕo ( conr-), ēre, v. n., to laugh together or aloud (ante- and post-class.).

Lit., Aug. Conf. 4, 8:

alicui,

Vulg. Gen. 21, 6.—

Trop.:

perfusa lepore Omnia corrident,

Lucr. 4, 81.

cor-rĭpĭo ( conr-), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize or snatch up, to collect, to seize upon, take hold of (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.

In gen.:

hominem conripi ac suspendi jussit in oleastro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57; Caes. B. C. 3, 109; cf. Ov. M. 9, 217 al.:

arcumque manu celeresque sagittas,

Verg. A. 1, 188; cf.:

lora manu,

Ov. M. 2, 145:

fasces,

Sall. C. 18, 5:

arma,

Vell. 2, 110 et saep.: corpus, to rise up quickly, start up:

ex somno,

Lucr. 3, 164; Verg. A. 4, 572:

de terrā,

Lucr. 4, 1000:

e stratis,

Verg. A. 3, 176: se, to get or rise up hastily, to betake one's self somewhere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 76; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 6, 472.— Poet.: viam, gradum, spatium, etc., to set out quickly, to pursue hastily, to hasten, hasten through or over:

viam,

Verg. A. 1, 418; Ov. M. 2, 158; Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 6:

gradum,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 33:

spatia,

Verg. A. 5, 316:

campum,

id. G. 3, 104:

aequora,

Val. Fl. 1, 132 al.:

correptā luce diei,

collected, Lucr. 4, 81.—

In partic.

Of robbery, etc., to carry off, rob, plunder, take possession of, usurp:

pecunias undique quasi in subsidium,

Tac. A. 13, 18; cf.:

bona vivorum ac mortuorum usquequaque,

Suet. Dom. 12:

pecunias,

Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Tac. A. 13, 31 fin.:

sacram effigiem,

Verg. A. 2, 167:

praefecturas,

Tac. A. 11, 8 al. —

In Tac. freq. of accusations, to bring to trial, accuse, inform against:

Vitellius accusatione corripitur, deferente Junio Lupo senatore,

Tac. A. 12, 42; 2, 28; 3, 49; 6, 40 al.—

Of fire, etc., or of diseases, to attack, seize, sweep, or carry away (freq. after the Aug. per.):

turbine caelesti subito correptus et igni,

Lucr. 6, 395; cf. Verg. A. 1, 45:

flamma Corripuit tabulas,

id. ib. 9, 537; so Ov. M. 2, 210 al.;

and transf. to the person: ipsas ignes corripuere casas,

id. F. 2, 524:

nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt,

Verg. G. 3, 472; Cels. 6, 18, 9; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 172:

morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est,

Suet. Caes. 45:

pedum dolore,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4;

rarely of death: subitā morte,

Flor. 3, 17, 2:

(ales) caeco correpta veneno,

Lucr. 6, 823:

(segetes) modo sol nimius, nimius modo corripit imber,

Ov. M. 5, 483.— Absol.:

si (paralytici) correpti non sunt, diutius quidem vivunt, sed, etc.,

Cels. 3, 47, 4.—

With the access. idea of lessening by compressing, to draw together, draw in, contract, shorten, abridge, diminish (rare; mostly post-Aug.): singulos a septenis spatiis ad quina corripuit. Suet. Dom. 4:

impensas,

id. Tib. 34;

of discourse: quae nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas,

Quint. 4, 2, 44;

of words in the number of syllables (trabs from trabes),

Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll.;

or in the length of syllables,

Quint. 9, 4, 89; 10, 1, 29;

and so of syllables (opp. producere),

id. 1, 5, 18;

opp. porrigere,

id. 1, 6, 32, and later grammarians.—In time:

numina corripiant moras,

shorten, Ov. M. 9, 282:

ut difficiles puerperiorum tricas Juno mulceat corripiatque Lucina?

Arn. 3, 21.—

Trop.

To reproach, reprove, chide, blame (first freq. after the Aug. per.;

not in Cic.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so with abl., Suet. Aug. 53:

impransi correptus voce magistri,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 257:

hunc cetera turba suorum corripiunt dictis,

Ov. M. 3, 565 al.:

ut eum non inimice corripere, sed paene patrie monere videatur,

Quint. 11, 1, 68; Liv. 2, 28, 5; Suet. Calig. 45; Ov. M. 13, 69 al.:

corripientibus amicis,

Suet. Ner. 35.—As a figure of speech, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104.—

Of the passions, emotions, etc., to seize upon, attack (rare, [p. 474] and mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

hunc plausus hiantem... plebisque patrumque Corripuit ( = animum commovit),

Verg. G. 2, 510:

correpta cupidine,

Ov. M. 9, 734; so id. ib. 9, 455:

duplici ardore (sc. amoris et vini),

Prop. 1, 3, 13:

misericordiā,

Suet. Calig. 12:

irā,

Gell. 1, 26, 8: militiā ( poet. for militiae studio), Verg. A. 11, 584:

imagine visae formae,

seized, fascinated, Ov. M. 4, 676.

cor-rōbŏro ( conr-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to strengthen or invigorate, to make strong, to corroborate (in good prose; most freq. in Cic.).

Lit.:

(puerilis tua vox) se corroboravit,

Cic. Sest. 4, 10:

cum is jam se corroboravisset ac vir inter viros esset,

i. e. had become stronger, greater, was grown up, id. Cael. 5, 11; cf. id. ib. 17, 41; Suet. Tib. 11:

cerebrum,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134:

stomachum,

id. 20, 23, 99, § 263:

torpentis membrorum partis,

id. 24, 4, 7, § 13:

militem opere assiduo,

Suet. Galb. 6:

palmitem,

Col. 4, 24, 10; cf. id. 4, 12, 2.—

Trop.:

mens hominis usque eo philosophiam ipsam corroborat, ut virtutem efficiat, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 31:

virtutem,

id. Fl. 26, 63:

corroborare et confirmare ingenia,

id. Lael. 20, 74:

eloquentiae famam,

Tac. Or. 34:

conjurationem nascentem non credendo,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30:

audaciam sceleratissimi hominis,

id. Mil. 12, 32.