Corinthus

And why, but the copper-smith from whom I buy them, is called Corinthus?

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Well, it's because the bronze worker I patronize is named Corinthus, and what's Corinthian unless it's what a Corinthus makes?

Satyricon 2007

Corinthus, and Hermione and Asine which lie along the sea; for he was famous with the long spear.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

A year after, being again elected general, he resolved to attempt the capture of the Acro-Corinthus, not so much for the advantage of the Sicyonians or Achaeans, as considering that by expelling the Macedonian garrison he should free all Greece alike from a tyranny which oppressed every part of her.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Ithomatas, to sacrifice there to Jupiter, and take a view of the place, for it is a post as fortifiable as the Acro-Corinthus, and, with a garrison in it, quite as strong and as impregnable to the attacks of all around it.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Nevertheless, being strengthened by the accession of the people of the Acte, as it is called, who put their towns into his hands, he proceeded to carry a palisade and lines of circumvallation around the Acro-Corinthus.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Antigonus replaced the statues of the tyrants of Argos that had been thrown down, and on the contrary threw down the statues of all those that had taken the Acro-Corinthus, except that of Aratus, nor could Aratus, by all his entreaties, dissuade him.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Cleomenes, and not to have let Peloponnesus fall once again into barbarism with Macedonian garrisons, and Acro-Corinthus be occupied with Illyric and Gaulish soldiers, and, under the specious name of

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Demetrius laughed and answered, “If you have in you the soul of soothsayer, you will restore it, but if of a prince, you will hold the ox by both the horns,” meaning to refer to Peloponnesus, which would be wholly in his power and at his disposal if he added the Ithomatas to the Acro-Corinthus.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

But I should call this capture of the Acro-Corinthus the last of the Grecian exploits, being comparable to the best of them, both for the daringness of it, and the success, as was presently seen by the consequences.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003