Corycia
A nymph, who became by Apollo the mother of Lycoras or Lycoreus, and from whom the Corycian cave in mount Parnassus was believed to have derived its name. (Pausanias x. 6. § 2, 32. § 2.) The plural, Coryciae, is applied to the daughters of Pleistus. (Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius; Metamorphoses by Ovid.)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom The Eclogues By Virgil.
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
Who would not sing for Gallus? So, when thou
Beneath Sicanian billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
And the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
The flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
From Ars Amatoria By Ovid
We can make beauties that please us widely known:
Nemesis has a name, and Cynthia has: you’ll have heard of Lycoris from East to West: and many ask who my Corinna is.
Add that guile is absent from the sacred poets, and our art too fashions our characters.
