Corsīca

, a mountainous island in the Mediterranean, on the coast of Italy. Its inhabitants were savage, and bore the character of robbers, liars, and atheists, according to Seneca, who was exiled among them. They lived to a great age, and fed on honey, which was produced in great abundance, though bitter in taste, from the number of yew trees and hemlock which grew there. Corsica was in the po e ion of the Cart hag in i ans, and was conquered by the Romans, B.C. 231. The Greeks called it Cyrnos. In the age of Pliny it was considered as in a flourishing state, as it contained no le than 33 towns, a number far exceeding its present population.— Strabo. — Martial , bk. 9 , ltr. 27 .— Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 6 ; bk. 7 , ch. 2 .— Ovid , Amores , bk. 1 , poem 12, li. 10 .— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 9, li. 30 .