cor

cor (ŏ, e. g. Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 28; id. P. 1, 3, 32), cordis ( gen. plur. cordium, Vulg. Jer. 4, 4, and 1 Cor. 4, 5; acc. to Fragm. Bob. Nom. et Pron. p. 132, also cordum, but without example), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. hrid; Gr. kardia; Germ. Herz; Engl. heart], the heart (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

I.

Lit., the heart, as the chief source of the circulation of the blood, and so of life, Cels. 4, 1; cf. Plin. 11, 37, 69. §§

181 and 182: cor tineosum, opinor, habeo,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 62:

num igitur censes, ullum animal, quod sanguinem habeat, sine corde esse posse?

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

cordis globus aut oculi,

Lucr. 4, 119 et saep.— Also for the Greek kardia, the cardiac extremity of the stomach, Lucr. 6, 1150; Hor. S. 2, 3, 28; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 161.—

B.

Meton. (pars pro toto; cf. caput, II.), a person:

lecti juvenes, fortissima corda,

Verg. A. 5, 729:

aspera,

id. ib. 10, 87.—Of animals:

canum,

Lucr. 5, 864.—A term of endearment, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 154 (cf. corculum).—

II.

Trop.

A.

The heart, as the seat of feeling, emotion, etc., heart, soul, feeling ( poet. ):

videas corde amare inter se,

from the heart, cordially, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 60:

aliquem amare corde atque animo suo,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 75:

facinus magnum timido cordi credere,

id. Ps. 2, 1, 3:

neque meo Cordi quomquam esse cariorem hoc Phaedriā,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 121:

corde tremit,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 8:

cura ex corde excessit,

Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12:

cor meum spes laudis percussit,

Lucr. 1, 922:

spectantis tangere querelā,

Hor. A. P. 98:

nequeunt expleri corda tuendo Terribilis oculos,

Verg. A. 8, 265; cf. id. ib. 9, 55:

curis acuere mortalia corda,

id. G. 1, 123; 1, 330; id. A. 1, 302.—

b.

Cordi est alicui, it lies at one's heart, it pleases, is pleasing, agreeable, or dear: quod tibi magnopere cordi est, mihi vehementer displicet, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 88, 32; 89, 1:

utut erga me est meritus, mihi cordi est tamen,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 110; Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

uterque utriquest cordi,

id. Phorm. 5, 3, 17:

idque eo mihi magis est cordi, quod, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 4, 15; id. Quint. 30, 93; id. Or. 16, 53; Liv. 1, 39, 4; 8, 7, 6; Hor. C. 1, 17, 14 al.; Cato ap. Macr. S. 3, 5 fin. —With inf.:

facere aliquid,

Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 10:

exstinguere vestigia urbis, etc.,

Liv. 28, 20, 7:

subigi nos,

id. 9, 1, 4 al. —

c.

Cordi habere aliquid, to have at heart, to lay great stress upon, to value (post-class.), Gell. 2, 29, 20; 17, 19, 6; 18, 7, 3.—

B.

Acc. to the ancients (cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18) as the seat of wisdom, understanding, heart, mind, judgment, etc. (most freq. in ante-class. poets): quem (Hannibalem) esse meum cor Suasorem summum et studiosum robore belli, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 2, 9 (Ann. 374 Vahl.):

Ego atque in meo corde, si est quod mihi cor, Eam rem volutavi,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 3 dub. (bracketed by Ritschl):

quantum ego nunc corde conspicio meo,

id. Ps. 3, 1, 3:

quicquam sapere corde,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 65; Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 7; Lucr. 1, 737; 5, 1107:

nec enim sequitur, ut cui cor sapiat, ei non sapiat palatus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24 Madv.; cf. id. ib. 2, 28, 91:

stupor cordis,

id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: cor Zenodoti, Fur. Bib. ap. Suet. Gram. 11; cf.:

cor Enni,

Pers. 6, 10; cf., in a play on the meaning, I. A.: si pecudi cor defuisset, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 77 fin.