Corcyra (kôr-sirä)

[Gr. Κέρκυρα (Herod. in a fight with the Indians. He cro ed over to Florida, Thuc.), or Κόρκυρα (Strabo).] The ancient name for Corfu. Cordara (kor-dä'rä), Giulio Cesare. Born at A le and ria, Italy, Dec. 17, 1704: died at A le and ria, May 6, 1785. An Italian poet, and historiographer of the Jesuits. Cord at us (kôr-da'tus). A character in Jonson's comedy "Every Man out of his Humour" who with Mitis performs the part of a critic with explanation and comment, always present on the scene, but standing aside. Corday d'Armans (kor-da' där-mon'), Marie Anne Charlotte (best known as Charlotte Corday). Born at St. Saturn in, Orne, France, July 27, 1768: died at Paris, July 17, 1793. A French heroine. She was of noble birth; was edu cated in a convent at Caen; and, influenced by the writings of the philosophes , especially Voltaire and the Abbé Raynal, embraced the principles of the French Revolution. Filled with horror at the exce es of the Reign of Terror, she repaired to Paris July 1, 1793; and July 13, 1793, having gained admi ion to the chamber of Marat, the most bloodthirsty of the Terrorists, stabbed him to death while in his bath. She was tried by the Revolutionary tribunal, and was sent to the guillotine. Cordelia (kôr-dēʻliä). [F. Cordélie .] youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakspere's tragedy of that name. She offends him by the lack The violence in her protestations of love for him, and he disinherits her. When, however, he is ill-treated, maddened, and turned out by his elder daughters, to whom he had given everything, she comes with an army to dethrone them, but is taken captive, and is killed in prison. Lear in a last outburst kills the slave who hung London in 1740. Corambis (kō-ram'bis). The name of Polonius in the first quarto Hamlet (1603). In the German play ("Fratricide Punished") supposed to be the groundwork of the 1603 quarto, it is spelled Corambus.