correus

/ˈkɒɹɪəs/

Etymology

First attested in the singular in 1656 and in the plural in 1707; elliptical use from correus debendi.

name

  1. The general who led the Bellovaci against Julius Caesar in 57 BC during the latter's conquest of Gaul.“CÆSAR thought he had done enough for the ſeaſon of the year, in diſperſing the enemy’s forces to prevent a war; but conſidering how much it imported him to take care that the rebels ſhould not be able to make any conſiderable head the next ſummer, left C. Trebonius, with two of the legions he brought along with him, at Orleans: and being informed by ſeveral meſſengers from Rheims, that the people ”

noun

  1. Synonym of correus debendi.“When a creditor will accept ſolutionem particularum vel correi, the debtor or the correus muſt pay”