Cornēlĭus, a,
I subst., a designation of a Roman gens celebrated as embracing the most distinguished Roman men and women (the patrician Scipios, Sulla, the Gracchi and their mother, etc.; the plebeian Balbi, Mammulae, Merulae, etc.).—Also adj.; hence the numerous laws made by the different Cornelii, but esp. by L. Cornelius Sulla, were called Leges Corneliae; cf. Ernest. and Orell. Clav. Cicer. in Ind. Legum, p. 13 sq.; Dict. of Antiq.— Fŏrum Cor-nēlĭum , a town of the Lingones in Gallia Cisalpina, Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2.—Hence,
II Cornēlĭānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Cornelius, Cornelian : oratio, the oration of Cicero in defence of a certain C. Cornelius , Cic. Brut. 78, 271; id. Or. 29, 103; 67, 225; 70, 232; its fragments, v. in Orell. IV. 2, pp. 446-454, and V. 2, pp. 56-81.—
B Cornēlĭāna Castra , a place on the African coast, in the vicinity of Bagradas, named after the camp of the elder Scipio pitched there in the second Punic war , now Ghellah , Caes. B. C. 2, 24 sq.; the same place was also called Castra Cornēlĭa , Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, §§ 24 and 29.