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Cortiʹna

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The skin of the serpent Pytho, which covered the tripod of the Pythoness when she delivered her oracles. “Tripodas cortina tegit” (Prudentius: Apophthegmata, 506); also the tripod itself, or the place where the oracle was delivered. (Virgil: Ænēid, vi. 345.) “Neque te Phœbi cortina fefellit.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Correggio
Corroboree
Corrouge
Corrugated Iron
Corrupticolæ
Corruption of Blood
Corsair
Corsned
Cortes
Cortina
Corvinus [a raven]
Corybantic Religion
Corycian Cave (The)
Corycian Nymphs (The)
Corydon
Coryphæus (The) or “Coryphēus.”
Coryphæus of German Literature (The)
Coryphæus of Grammarians
Coryphée
Cosa (plu. Cosas)