English

Proper noun

Correus

1. The general who led the Bellovaci against Julius Caesar in 57 BC during the latter's conquest of Gaul.
   • 1737, Aulus Hirtius Pansa (author) and Martin Bladen (translator), “A Supplement to C. J. Cæſar’s Commentary of his War in Gaul”, book VIII of Julius Caesar’s Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey. (sixth edition), chapter II, page 179

     CÆSAR thought he had done enough for the ſeaſon of the year, in diſperſing the enemy’s forces to prevent a war; but conſidering how much it imported him to take care that the rebels ſhould not be able to make any conſiderable head the next ſummer, left C. Trebonius, with two of the legions he brought along with him, at Orleans: and being informed by ſeveral meſſengers from Rheims, that the people of Beauvois (who are more renown’d for warlike virtue than any other ſtate of the Belgæ) with ſome of their neighbours, under the conduct of Correus of Beauvois, and Comius of Arras, were raiſing a conſiderable army, and marching to a general rendezvous, in order to invade the borders of Soiſſon, which belonged to the country of Rheims; he thought it did not only concern his honour, but intereſt, not to permit ſuch faithful allies as thoſe of Rheims to ſuffer, who had merited ſo well from the Roman empire.

English

Noun

correus ‎(plural correi)

1. = correus debendi
   • 1656 June 7, John Thurloe (author) and Thomas Birch (editor), “A letter of intelligence from the Hague, 7 June 1656” in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe V (London, 1742), page 71

     When a creditor will accept ſolutionem particularum vel correi, the debtor or the correus muſt pay

   • 1707 December 17, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall (editor), The Deciſions of the Lords of Council and Seſſion, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712 II (Edinburgh, 1761), page 404

     Since this act, few take bonds with cautioners, but bind them all as correi and principals.

Latin

Etymology

cor- ‎(“joint”) +‎ reus ‎(“accused”, “defendant”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.re.us/

Noun

correus m ‎(genitive correī); second declension

1. a partaker in guilt, a joint criminal

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: correal, correus debendi

References

• correus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CORREUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “correus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• correus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• correus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• correus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin