CORNELIUS, an ancient Latin poet of the Augustan age; whose *Extrus*, together with a fragment *De morte Ciceroe*, were published, with notes and a prose interpretation, by Le Clerc, 12mo, Amsterdam, 1723. They were before inserted among the *Catalecia Virgili* published by Scaliger; whose notes, with others, Le Clerc has received among his own.

Septimius, a Roman emperor, who has been so much admired for his military talents, that some have called him the most warlike of the Roman emperors. As a monarch he was cruel, and it has been observed that he never did an act of humanity or forgave a fault. In his diet he was temperate, and he always showed himself an open enemy to pomp and splendour. He loved the appellation of a man of letters, and he even composed an history of his own reign, which some have praised for its correctness and veracity. However cruel Severus may appear in his punishments and in his revenge, many have endeavoured to exculpate him, and observed that there was need of severity in an empire where the morals were so corrupted, and where no less than 3000 persons were accused of adultery during the space of 17 years. Of him, as of Augustus, some were disposed to say, that it would have been better for the world if he had never been born, or had never died.

See ROME, No. 372.