in Antiquity, a style of female head-dress, in which the hair was arranged in the form of a cyrnumus or knot resembling the clusters of ivy-berries.

CORYPHÆUS (from κορυφή, the top of the head), in the ancient tragedy, was the chief or leader of the company who composed the chorus. (See Drama.) Hence coryphaeus passed into a general name for the chief or principal of any company, corporation, or sect. Thus Eustatius of Antioch is called the coryphaeus of the council of Nice; and Cicero calls Zeno the coryphaeus of the Stoics.