Cornel
a tree (Cornus sanguinea) called the corn-tree, the female cornel, female cornel , prickwood, dogberry-tree, dogwood-tree, hounds-tree, gaten, and gaten-tree. Its seeds furnish lamp-oil.
CORNELIA, an illustrious Roman lady; a daughter of Scipio Africanus, wife of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , and mother of the two famous tribunes.
When a friend condoled with her on the death of her sons, she replied, "The woman who had the Gracchi for sons cannot be considered unfortunate." Her > CORNELIAN literary talents must have been consider. able, as Cicero very highly commends some of her epistles. She She lived in the second century B. C., and after her death the Romans erected a statue to her memory, bearing the inscription, "To Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi."