Linguist Roger Woodard, based on McCone,[1] suggests the name of the town, Corioli, may derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *kóryos, meaning 'army'.
The site is apparently to be sought in the North-Western portion of the district between the sea, the river Astura [it] and the Alban Hills;[4] but it cannot be more accurately fixed (the identification with Monte Giove, South of the Valle Aricciana, rests on no sufficient evidence), and even in the time of Pliny it ranked among the lost cities of Latium.
[5] Scholarship points that Corioli, along with Polusca and Longula, are mentioned together in ancient sources, yet disappear from the historical record "after the legendary age".
[6] In 493 BC a Roman army under the command of the consul Postumus Cominius Auruncus laid siege to the town.
He quickly gathered a small force of Roman soldiers to fight against the Volscians who had sallied forth from Corioli.