Colchis and Colchos, a country of Asia, at the south of Asiatic Sarmatia, east of the Euxine sea, north of Armenia, and west of Iberia, now called Mingrelia. It is famous for the expedition of the Argonauts, and as the birthplace of Medea. It was fruitful in poisonous herbs, and produced excellent flax. The inhabitants were originally Egyptians, who settled there when Sesostris king of Egypt extended his conquests in the north. From the country arises the epithets of Colchus, Colchicus, Colchiachus, and Medea receives the name of Colchis. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 640.—Flaccus, bk. 5, li. 418.—Horace, bk. 2, ode 13, li. 8.—Strabo, bk. 11.—Ptolemy, bk. 5, ch. 10.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 24; Amores, bk. 2, poem 14, li. 28.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19; bk. 2, ch. 3.
Colenda, a town of Spain.
Colias, now Agio Nicolo, a promontory of Attica, in the form of a man’s foot, where Venus had a temple. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 96.
Collatia, a town on the Anio, built by the people of Alba. It was there that Sextus Tarquin offered violence to Lucretia. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 37, &c.—Strabo, bk. 3.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 774.
Lucius Tarquinius Collatīnus, a nephew of Tarquin the Proud, who married Lucretia, to whom Sextus Tarquin offered violence. He, with Brutus, drove the Tarquins from Rome, and were made first consuls. As he was one of the Tarquins, so much abominated by all the Roman people, he laid down his office of consul, and retired to Alba in voluntary banishment. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 57; bk. 2, ch. 2.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 9.——One of the seven hills of Rome.
Collīna, one of the gates of Rome, on mount Quirinalis. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 871.——A goddess at Rome, who presided over hills. One of the original tribes established by Romulus.
Collucia, a lascivious woman, &c. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 306.
Junius Colo, a governor of Pontus, who brought Mithridates to the emperor Claudius. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 21.
Colōnæ, a place of Troas. Cornelius Nepos, bk. 4, ch. 3.
Colōne, a city of Phocis,——of Erythræa,——of Thessaly,——of Messenia.——A rock of Asia, on the Thracian Bosphorus.