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CORNABIL 34 between ThemiMnium and Cormaaa, and 12 from Cormasa to Perge." Ptolemj (y. 5) enomenitee Connasa among the cities of Pisidia. It does not seem possible to make anj coDJectore as to the site of Gonnasa. [6. L.] CORMA'BIIorCORNATn. 1. In North Britain, mentioned bj Ptolemj as lying in the extreme north- east of Scotland ; cooaeqaently in the present county of Caithnets, 2. In North Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying east of the Ordovices (^North WtUet)^ with Deuna for their town. This gives ports of Staf- ford, Chester, and Shropshire, as their area. fSee Deuna.] [R, G. L.J CO'RNAGUM (KSpyoKoy), a town in Lower Pannonia, where, according to the NoilL Imper. several detachments of cavalry were in garrison. (Ptol. ii. 16. § 5 ; Itin. Ant p. 243.) [L. S.] CORNE'LIA CASTRA- [Caotba.] CORNrCULUM (KopyiKoXos, Dionys. ; K6pvi. AcAos, Steph. B. : Eth. KopyucohavdSf Comicolanns), an ancient city of Latinm, which appears to have occupied one of the summits of the remarkable group of isolated hills that rises boldly from the plain of the Campagnay about 3 miles from the foot of the lofty Monte Gtnnaro (Lucretilis Mons). These hills, now known as the MoiUuxUL were called in ancient times the Months Gorniculani (ra K&pviKka ipta, Dionys. i. 16); both their principal summits present remains of ancient cities, and it is proliable that one or other of these must have been the site of GoniiciUnm : bnt we have no information from ancient writers to assist ns in deciding between them. Comiculnm only figures in Roman history during the war of Tarquinius Priscus with the Latins, when it is mentioned among the places re- duced by that monarch by force of arms. (Liv. i. 38 ; Dimiys. iii. 50.) It was on this occasion that, according to the received tradition, Ocrisia, the mother of Servins Tullius, fell into the hands of the Romans as a captive. (Liv. i. 39 ; Dionys. iv. 1 ; Orid, Fast. vi. 628.) At this time Livy reckons it one of the cities of the " Prisci Latini." Dionysius tells us that it was strongly fortified^ and withstood a long siege, but after its capture was plundered and burnt by Tarquin. He does not speak of the city as dettroyed ; and it is probable that it did not cease to esist at so early a period. In the list of the thirty cities of the Latin League given by Dionysius (v. 61), we find the Comi (IGtpvoi), who are probably, as suggested by Niebuhr, the citizens of Gomicultun. (Niebuhr, vol. ii. p. 17, note 21.) Floms also al. ludes to Comiculum as having taken part in the wars of the Latins against xYxa Republic (i. 11. § 6), though the passage is so rhetorical, that little value can be attached to it. But in later times no mention is found of Gumiculnm, and it is only noticed by Pliny among the cities of Latium, of which no trace remained in his day. (Plin. iii. 5. s. 9.) The Afontes Gorniculani are a very striking feature of the Roman Gampogna. They form an isolated group, wholly detached from the main range of the Afiennines, consisting of three rocky peaks of con- eiiierable elevation, and yery steep and difficult of access. Notwithstanding this, all three were in- habited in the middle ages, and two of them still are so. The northemmost and highest of the three, now occupied by a poor vilhige called S. Angela m Ca- pocciaj presents considerable remains of ancient walls of a very rode and primitive style of <»nstruction, more resembling the earliest specimens of the Cy- GORODAMUM. 687 clopean style than any other rains of the class in LatiuuL (See the figure in Cell, Top. of Rome, p. 56.) These are considered by Sir W. Gell to be the remains of Gorniculum. On the soathemmost peak stands the modern village of MonHc^ which retains no vestiges of veiy remote antiquity, but presents numerous fragments of bnildings, and a small temple or Saoellnm, oonstracted in brick, and obviously of the time of the Roman empire. Nibby, Abeken, and others consider this hill to be the site of Gorniculum, and refer the more ancient ruins on that of S. Angelo to MeduUia, a city which must probably be placed in the immediate vicinity of Gor- niculum. [Mkdulua.] Gell, however, b of opinion that there could never have been an ancient city on the site of MonticeUi, and that the walls at&An^ gdo must therefore be those of Gorniculum. {Top, of Rome, pp. 55, 319; Nibby, Dmtomi, voL ii, pp. 327, 367 ; Abeken, M. L p. 78.) [E. H. B.] GORNUS (KjJpFos, Ptol. UL 8. § 7 ; Gomi, Itm, Ant p. 84), a city on the W. coast of Sardinia, calked by Livy the capital of that part of the iskind. It was made theur head-quarters and place of refuge by the Sardinian tribes who revolted against the Romans during the Second Punio War, bnt after the defeat of Hampsicora was besieged and taken by the prae- tor T. Manlius, B.a 215. (Liy. aouil 40, 41.) Ptolemy erroneously reckons it among the inland towns of Sardinia; the Itinerary places it on the road along the west coast of the islimd, 18 miles from Bosa, and the pame distance from Tharros. These distances coincide with the site of the existing ruins, which are still visible on the sea-coast between Capo Nieddu and Capo Manmu, about 13 miles N. of Oriskmo. Numerous fragments of buildings, parts of an aqueduct, necropolis, and the walls of the port, are still standing. Gaitliaginian and Roman coins are found there in abundance. (Tyndale's Sardinia, vol. ii. pp. 300, 301.) [E. H. B.] GOROBl'LIUM, a town of Gallia, is pUced in gio Table on a road firom Durocortorum (Reims) to An- dematunum (Langres), The next station to Duro- cortorum is Durocatalannum (Chdlons), which is omitted in the Table. There is an old road from Chdlons to Langres on which Corbeil stands, and this must be Gorbilium ; yet the distances do not agree. The Table makes it 42 Gallic leagues from Corbeil to LangreSf but the real distance ia greater. [G. L.] GOROG (Kop6K, Isid. Ghar. p. 8), a small place in Drangiana mentioned by Isidorns. It has been supposed by Forbiger to be the same as that now called Kohec. [V.] GOROGONDAME (Kopoieoyidfirif Strab. xi. pp. 494, 496 ; Ptol. ▼. 9. §§ 6, 8 ; Mda, i. 19; Steph. B. s. «.), a small place close to the Bosporus Gimmerins in the country of the Bosporani, and adjoining one of the mouths of the river Antidtes (now Ktiban). It gave its name to a lake of some size, called Gorocondamitis (Strab. L c), which ap- pears to have been formed by one of the branches of the ssme river. There is some indistinctness in the ancient accounts of this district; and, aocording to some, as Mela (i. 19), and Dionysius Perieg. (550), Gorooondame would seem to be the name of a pe- ninsula or ishind, fonned by the Bosporaa, the Mae- Otis, and the river. [V.I GOBODAMUM PROM. (KopSSofwr &c^k), a promontory at the NE. extremity of the ooontry of the Sachalitae, immediately without the straits of t the Persian gal£ BIr. Forster fixes it at Rat-eU