I.to make straight, set right, bring into order.
I. Lit. (rare): “catenas,” Cato, R. R. 18 fin.: “alicui digitum,” Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83: “verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,” smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4: “vulvas conversas,” Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.: “malas labentes,” Suet. Aug. 99: “cursum (navis),” Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.: “se flexus (fluminum),” Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—
B. Prov.: “curva,” to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,
II. Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.
A. In gen.
(α).
With acc.: “aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,” Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81: “gnatum mi,” Ter. And. 3, 4, 17: “ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,” Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17: “praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,” Liv. 30, 30, 7: “tarditatem cursu,” Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf. “mendum,” Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5: “delicta,” Sall. J. 3, 2: “mores (opp. corrumpere),” Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32; “and, mores (with vitia emendare),” Quint. 12, 7, 2: “acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,” Liv. 43, 21, 4: “quicquid corrigere est nefas,” Hor. C. 1, 24, 20: “dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,” Ov. M. 2, 89: “moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,” id. ib. 10, 670: “ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,” Vell. 2, 79, 5: “ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27: “paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,” Sall. C. 52, 35: “tu ut umquam te corrigas?” Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22: “tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,” id. Leg. 3, 13, 30: “aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,” id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60: “conscius mihi sum ... corrigi me posse,” Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.): “cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,” Cic. Or. 39, 135. —
(β).
Absol.: “se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,” Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—
B. In medic. lang., to heal, cure: “lentigines,” Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156: “maciem corporis,” id. 31, 6, 33, § 66: “cutem in facie,” id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus (conr- ), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare): “ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,” Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus , i, m., one who is reformed: “nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,” Lact. 6, 24, 5.
