Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Cornu, Corymbus

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Corymbus

（κόρυμβος). A particular mode of wearing the hair among the Greek women, which is explained in the article Coma. The following illustration, taken from Millingen, represents a woman whose hair is dressed in this manner. The name literally means a bunch of ivy-berries, and was first applied to a form of garland.

Corymbus. (Millingen,

Peintures Antiques

, pl. 40.)

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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