the ceremony of investiture with a crown, particularly applied to the crowning of kings, upon their succeeding to the sovereignty. See KING.

CORONA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Boeotia, near Mount Helicon, and the lake Copais, situated on an eminence; famous for the defeat of the Athenians and Boeotians by Agesilaus. Another Corona of Thessaly; having Narthacium to the east, and Lamia near the Sperchius to the north (Ptolemy).