Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Italy, in the provinceof Cosenza, on a hill above the right bankof the Corigliano, near the site of theancient Sybaris, of which no vestigesremain. Pop. about 17,000. CORINTH, a famous city of Greecewithin the Morea (ancient Peloponne-sus), near the isthmus of the same name,between the gulfs of Lepanto {Corinthia-cus Sinus) on the W., and of ^Egina{SaronicTis Sinus) on the E., 48 milesW. of Athens. Corinth was destroyedby an earthquake in 1858, and has nowbut few remains of
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Italy, in the provinceof Cosenza, on a hill above the right bankof the Corigliano, near the site of theancient Sybaris, of which no vestigesremain. Pop. about 17,000. CORINTH, a famous city of Greecewithin the Morea (ancient Peloponne-sus), near the isthmus of the same name,between the gulfs of Lepanto {Corinthia-cus Sinus) on the W., and of ^Egina{SaronicTis Sinus) on the E., 48 milesW. of Athens. Corinth was destroyedby an earthquake in 1858, and has nowbut few remains of its ancient only interesting monument of an-tiquity is the citadel or was first founded by Sisyphus,son of .(Eolus, A. M. 2616, and receivedits name from Corinthus, the son ofPelops. It was totally destroyed by L,Mummius, the Roman consul, and burntto the ground, 146 B. c. The governmentof Corinth was monarchial till 779 B. C,when officers, called Prytanes, were insti-tuted. Its inhabitants formed numerouscolonies, and Paul preached the Gospelin it for upward of a year. After the. RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT CORINTH food harbor and considerable trade,op. about 27,000. The town is a winterresort for invalids. It was occupied bvthe Allies in the World War after 1915. CORIANDER, an umbelliferous plant,Coriandrum sativum. It has an erect,leafy stem, the lower leaves bipinnate,the upper more divided, the uppermostof all nearly setaceous. Fruit globose,nearly undivided, with 10 obscure linesor ribs. It has escaped from cultivationand become wild in many places. It isa native of southern Europe and theLevant. The word occui-s in Exod. xvi:81, and Num. xi: 7. It is the renderingof the Hebrew word gad, and the trans-lation is probably correct, for Celsussnys that goid is coriander. taking of Constantinople it fell into thehands of the Turks, from whom it wasretaken in 1687 by its former possessors,the Venetians. In 1715 it was again pos-sessed by
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