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cōlon or cōlum, i, n. (cōlus, i, m., Ser. Samm. 31, 1), = κῶλον (a member).
- I. The colon or great gut (the largest of the intestines), Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 202.
Esp., as the part affected by the colic: coli tormentum, Plin. 22, 22, 37, § 79: coli dolor, Scrib. Comp. 122.
Hence,
- B. A disease of the colon, the colic, Plin. 20, 15, 57, § 162; 31, 9, 45, § 102; Scrib. Comp. l. l.; Ser. Samm. l. l.
- II. Transf., a member of a verse (pure Lat. membrum), * Quint. 9, 4, 78; of a poem, Aug. ap. Don. Vit. Verg. c. 12.
cŏlostra (cŏlustra), ae, f. (cŏlo-stra, ōrum, n., Mart. 13, 38, 2; in sing.: cŏlostrum, Mart. l. l.; Serv. ad Verg. E. 2, 22), the first milk after delivery, the biestings, Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123; 11, 41, 96, § 236; Col. 7, 3, 17; Pall. Nov. 13, 1.
As a dainty dish, Mart. l. l.
As a term of endearment, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 154; 1, 2, 177; Laber. ap. Non. p. 84, 13.
cŏlŭber, bri, m. [akin to celer],
- I. a serpent, snake (poet.), Verg. G. 2, 320; 3, 418; id. A. 2, 471 (an imitation of Hom. Il. 22, 93: ὡς δὲ δράκων, κ.τ.λ.); Ov. M. 4, 620; 11, 775; Col. 10, 231.
- II. Esp., as an attributive of the hair of Medusa, the Furies, the Hydra, etc., Lucr. 5, 27; Ov. M. 9, 73; 10, 21; Luc. 6, 664; Val. Fl. 6, 175.
cŏlū̆bra, ae, f. [coluber], a female serpent; and in gen., a serpent, snake, Lucil., Turp., and Varr. ap. Non. p. 201, 22 sq.; Hor. C. 1, 17, 8; id. S. 1, 8, 42; Ov. M. 6, 559; Juv. 5, 103; Cels. 5, 27, 3; Col. 10, 230; Plin. 32, 5, 19, § 53.
As an attributive of the hair of the Furies, Medusa, etc. (v. coluber), Ov. M. 4, 474; 4, 491; 4, 783; Luc. 9, 634.
Hence, prov.: quas tu edes colubras? i. e. art thou frantic? Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 50 Ritschl N. cr.; and: colubra restem non parit, i.e. like produces like, the thorn does not produce grapes, Petr. 45, 9.
cŏlubrĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [coluberfero], serpent-bearing, an epithet of Medusa (cf. coluber and colubra): monstrum, Ov. M. 5, 241: collum, Luc. 9, 677.
* cŏlubrĭmŏdus, a, um, adj. [coluber-modus], serpent-like: capilli, Coripp. Fragm. 4.
cŏlubrīnus, a, um, adj. [coluber],
- I. like a serpent; trop., cunning, wily (ante- and post-class.): ingenio esse, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 6: vis gestūs, Tert. Spect. 18.
- II. Subst.: cŏlubrīna, ae, f., a plant, also called bryonia and dracontea, App. Herb. 14.
* cŏlubrōsus, a, um, adj. [coluber], serpentine, winding: actus (viae), Tert. adv. Val. 4.
1. cōlum, i, n.
- I. A vessel for straining, a strainer, colander, Cato, R. R. 11, 2; Verg. G. 2, 242; Col. 11, 2, 70; 12, 19, 4; 12, 38, 7; Plin. 36, 23, 52, § 173; App. M. 3, p. 130, 20; Scrib. Comp. 156 al.: colum nivarium, for cooling wine, Mart. 14, 103 inscr.; cf. id. 14, 104; Dig. 34, 2, 2.
- * II. Poet., a bow-net, a net of wicker-work for catching fish, a wear, Aus. Ep. 4, 57; cf. 2. colo.
2. cōlum, = colon, q. v.
cŏlumba, ae, f. [columbus], a dove, pigeon, Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 79; id. Fin. 3, 5, 18; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 103; Varr. R. R. 3, 7; Col. 8, 8; Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 104; Pall. 1, 24; Ov. M. 1, 506; 5, 605; id. Am. 2, 6, 56; Hor. C. 1, 37, 18; 4, 4, 32; id. Epod. 16, 32; as sacred to Venus: Cythereiades, Ov. M. 15, 386; cf. Hyg. Fab. 197.
As a term of endearment, my dove, Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 50 al.; cf. Vulg. Cant. 2, 10.
cŏlumbar, āris, n. [columba], a kind of collar (so called from its similarity to the hole in a dove-cot), Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 50.
cŏlumbārĭa, v. columbarius, II. B. 3.
cŏlumbārĭus, a, um, adj. [columba], pertaining to doves; only subst.,
- I. cŏ-lumbārĭus, ii, m., a dove-keeper, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 7; 3, 7, 5.
- II. cŏlumbārĭum, ii, n.
- A. A dove-cot, pigeon-house, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 4 sq.; Col. 8, 8, 3; 8, 8, 6; 8, 11, 3; Pall. 1, 24; Plin. 19, 9, 6, § 51; Dig. 10, 2, 8, § 1.
- B. Transf.
- 1. In archit., the gain or mortise in which rafters or joists lie, Vitr. 4, 2, 4.
- 2. A hole near the axle of a water-wheel, Vitr. 10, 9, 2.
- 3. An opening in the side of a vessel for the oars to pass through, a rowlock; plur.: columbaria in summis lateribus navium loca concava, per quae eminent remi, Isid. Orig. 19, 2, 3; cf. Fest. p. 169, 8.
Hence, cŏlumbā-rĭus, ii, m., an oarsman, as a term of reproach. Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l.
- 4. A subterranean sepulchre, in the walls of which were niches for urns of ashes, Inscr. Orell. 2975; 4513; v. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. columbarium.
* cŏlumbātim, adv. [columba], after the manner of doves, like doves: da basia, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. 1, 3, 219.
cŏlumbīnācĕus, a, um, adj. [columbinus], pertaining to a dove: pullus, a young dove, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 18, 111.
cŏlumbīnus, a, um [columba], pertaining to a dove or pigeon, dove-: pulli, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9; * Cic. Fam. 9, 18, 3; so also absol.: cŏlumbīni, ōrum, m., little doves, Mart. 13, 66: ovum, * Hor. S. 2, 4, 56: fimus, Plin. 17, 27, 47, § 259: stercora, id. 35, 6, 27, § 46.
- 2. Dove-colored: terra, Plin. 17, 7, 4, § 43: cicer, id. 18, 12, 32, § 124: vitis, id. 14, 3, 4, § 40: saxum, Pall. 1, 10, 3.
* cŏlumbor, āri, v. dep. [columba], to bill or kiss like doves, Maecenas ap. Sen. Ep. 114, 5.
* cŏlumbŭlātim, adv. [columbulus], in the manner of little doves, like little doves: labra conserens labris, Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 2; cf. columbatim.
cŏlumbŭlus, i, m., or -a, ae, f. dim. [columbus], a little dove, Plin. Ep. 9, 25, 3.
cŏlumbus, i, m. [κόλυμβος; cf.: calvus, color], a male dove or cock-pigeon (and transf., of male persons), Varr. L. L. 9, § 56; Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 49; Cat. 29, 9; 68, 125; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 5,
- I. A dove in gen. (very rare), Col. 8, 8, 1; Plin. 10, 9, 11, § 25.
1. cŏlŭmella (in MSS. often cŏlum-nella), ae, f. dim. [columna, columen],
- I. a small column, a pillar, Cato, R. R. 20, 1; 22, 2; Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66; id. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; Caes. B. C. 2, 10.
- B. The foot or pedestal of a catapult, Vitr. 10, 15.
- II. Trop., a pillar, support, prop (cf. columen), Lucil. ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57.
2. Cŏlŭmella, ae, m., a Roman cognomen in the gens Junia; so,
- I. M. Junius Moderatus Columella, of Hispania Bœtica, uncle of the following.
- II. L. Junius Moderatus Columella, a well-known writer on husbandry, in the first century of the Christian era. He was of Gades, and a companion of Seneca and Celsus; his writings, De Re Rustica and De Arboribus, are yet extant; v. Schneid. Scriptt. Rei Rust. II. 2 praef.; Col. 7, 2, 4; 7, 10, 185; Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153; 17, 9, 6, §§ 51 and 52; Pall. 1, 19, 3.
cŏlŭmellāris, e, adj [columella], pillar-formed (rare): dentes, the grinders of horses, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 2; Plin. 11, 37, 64, § 168; in vulg. Lat. colomelli, acc. to Isid. Orig. 11, 1, 48.
cŏlŭmen, ĭnis, n., and contr. cul-men, mis, n. [root cel- of excello; cf.: celsus, culmus, calamus, collis], lit., that which rises in height, is prominent, projects; hence the point, top, summit, ridge.
- I. Form columen, inis, n. (only this form is used by Plautus, v. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. p. 65).
- A. An elevated object, a pillar, column: ego vitam agam sub altis Phrygiae columinibus, the lofty buildings, or perh. the mountain-heights, Cat. 63, 71 Ellis ad loc.; and of a pillar of fire: Phoebi fax, tristis nunt a belli, quae magnum ad columen flammato ardore volabat, like an ascending column, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18.
- B. The highest part or top of an object, e. g. of a wall; the coping; Fr. le chaperon, Cato, R. R. 15, 1; of a building, a ridge, a roof, a gable: in turribus et columinibus villae, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 1: aulae, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1000; id. Thyest. 54 Gron.; so of the Capitol, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20, and of the culmination of heavenly bodies: oritur Canicula cum Cancro, in columen venit cum Geminis, Nigid. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 218.
- 2. Trop., the top, crown, summit, first, chief, the height, etc.: columen amicorum Antonii, Cotyla Varius, Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 26: pars haec vitae jam pridem pervenit ad columen, Plin. 15, 15, 17, § 57; Col. 3, 4, 3: audaciae, the crown of impudence, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 211.
- G. An elevated object that supports, sustains something; in archit., the top of a gable-end, a gable pillar, a prop, Vitr. 4, 2, 1; 4, 7, 5.
Esp. freq.,
- 2. Trop., a support, prop, stay: familiae, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 176: senati, praesidium popli, Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 6; cf. id. Ep. 2, 2, 7: rei publicae, Cic. Sest. 8, 19; Curt. 9, 6, 8: imperii Romani, Div 38, 51, 3: regni Ausonii, Sil. 15, 385: Asiae, Sen. Troad. 6: rerum mearum (Maecenas), Hor. C. 2, 17, 4: doctrinarum, artium (Varro et Nigidius), Gell. 19, 14, 1; Col. 3, 4, 3.
- II. culmen, ĭnis, n. (in Cic. only once; cf. the foll. B.; not in Cat., Lucr., or Hor.; in gen. first freq. since the Aug. per.).
- * A. Any thing high; poet., of the stalk of a bean, Ov. F. 4, 734.
- B. The top, summit, e. g. of a building, a roof, gable, cupola, etc.: columen in summo fastigio culminis, Vitr. 4, 2, 1; Ov. M. 1, 295; 1, 289; Verg. E. 1, 69: tecta domorum, id. A. 2, 446; 2, 458; 4, 186: culmina hominum, deorum, i. e. of houses and temples, id. ib. 4, 671; Liv. 27, 4, 11; 42, 3, 7.
Of the dome of heaven, * Cic. Arat. 26.
Of mountain summits: Alpium, Caes. B. G. 3, 2: Tarpeium, Suet. Dom. 23.
Of the crown of the head of men, Liv. 1, 34, 9.
Of the top of the prow of a ship, Luc. 3, 709.
- 2. Trop., the summit, acme, height, point of culmination (perh. not ante-Aug.): a summo culmine fortunae ad ultimum finem, Liv. 45, 9, 7: principium culmenque (columenque, Sillig) omnium rerum pretii margaritae tenent, Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106: ruit alta a culmine Troja, Verg. A. 2, 290 (Hom. Il. 13, 772: κατ’ ἄκρης); cf. id. ib. 2, 603: de summo culmine lapsus, Luc. 8, 8: regale, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 64. pastorale, id. B. Get. 355: honoris, App. Flor. 3.
‡ cŏlŭmis, e, adj., unhurt, safe; Gloss. Isid.: colume sanum, and columes salvos. (But, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 15, the true reading is incolumem; v. prol. ad Trin. p. 68 Ritschl.)
cŏlumna, ae, f. [root cel- of excello; v. columen, of which it is orig. a collat. form].
- A. A projecting object, a column, pillar, post (very freq.), Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sq.; 3, 3; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11: columnae et templa et porticus sustinent, tamen habent non plus utilitatis quam dignitatis, Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180; id. Verr. 2, 1, 51, §§ 133 and 134; Quint. 5, 13, 40: columnae Doricae, Ionicae, Tuscanicae, Corinthiae, Atticae, Plin. 36, 22, 56, § 178 sq.; Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sqq.: Rostrata, a column ornamented with beaks of ships, erected in honor of Duellius, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, Quint. 1, 7, 12 Spald.; fragments of the inscription on it are yet extant, v. in the Appendix: Maenia, also absol. Columna, a pillory in the Forum Romanum, where thieves, criminal slaves, and debtors were judged and punished, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 50 Ascon.
Absol.: ad columnam pervenire. Cic. Clu. 13, 39: adhaerescere ad columnam, id. Sest. 8, 18; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. columna.
Plur.: columnae, as the sign of a bookseller’s shop, Hor. A. P 373 Orell. ad loc.
From the use of pillars to designate boundaries of countries: Columnae Protei = fines Aegypti, Verg. A. 11, 262; and: Columnae Herculis, i. e. Calpe et Abyla, Mel. 1, 5, 3; 2, 6, 8; Plin. 3, prooem. § 4; Tac. G. 34.
Prov.: incurrere amentem in columnas, Cic. Or. 67, 224.
- * 2. Trop., a pillar, support; of Augustus, Hor. C. 1, 35, 14.
- 3. Transf., of objects resembling a pillar; so,
- a. Of the arm (comice): ecce autem aedificat: columnam mento suffigit suo, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54.
- b. A water-spout, Lucr. 6, 426; 6, 433; Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134.
- c. Of fire, a meteor, Sen. Q. N. 7, 20, 2; cf. of the pillar of cloud and of fire which guided the Exodus, Vulg. Exod. 13, 21 sq.
- d. Membrum virile, Mart. 6, 49; 11, 51; Auct. Priap. 9, 8.
- e. Narium recta pars eo quod aequaliter sit in longitudine et rotunditate porrecta, columna vocatur, Isid. Orig. 11, 1, 48.
- * B. The top, summit; so only once of the dome of heaven, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 21; cf. columen.
cŏlumnar, āris, n. [for columnarium], a stone-quarry, marble-quarry, Inscr. Orell. 4034.
* cŏlumnāris, e, adj. [columna], rising in the form of a pillar: lux, a pillar of fire, Prud. Ham. 476 (in imitation of the Heb. [??], Exod. 13, 21); cf. columnifer.
cŏlumnārĭum, ii, v. columnarius, II.
cŏlumnārĭus, a, um, adj. [columna], of or pertaining to a column; only subst.,
- * I. cŏlumnārĭus, ii, m., one who was condemned at the Columna Maenia (v. columna, A.); therefore a criminal or debtor, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 4.
- II. cŏlum-nārĭum, ii, n., a tribute for the pillars of a house, a pillar-tax, Cic. Att. 13, 6, 1; Caes. B. C. 3, 32; cf. columnar.
cŏlumnātĭo, ōnis, f. [columna], a supporting by pillars: scaenae, App. Flor. 18, p. 359, 3.
cŏlumnātus, a, um, adj. [columna], supported by posts or pillars (perh. only in the foll. exs.): tholus, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 12: diversoria, Ambros. de Cain et Abel, 1, 5, 19: pons, Ampel. Lib. Mem. 8, 3.
Humorously: os, i. e. supported upon the hand, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 57; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 54.
cŏlumnella, v. columella.
* cŏlumnĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [columna-fero], column-bearing: radius, a pillar of fire, Prud. Cath. 9, 51; cf. columnaris.
cŏlūri, ōrum, v. colurus.
cŏlurnus, a, um, adj. [transp. for corulnus, from corulus = corylus], made of the hazel-bush: verna, Verg. G. 2, 396 Serv.; cf. Prisc. p. 595 P.: hastilia, Paul. ex Fest. p. 37, 7 Müll.
† cŏlūrus, a, um, adj., = κόλουρος, mutilated; hence,
- I. In astron.: coluri circuli, = κόλουροι, the colures, two circles passing through the equinoctial and solstitial points, and cutting each other at right angles at the poles, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 15.
- II. In metre: metrum, a syllable too short, Plotius, Metr. p. 2649 P.
cŏlus (i and), ūs (cf. Prisc. pp. 654 and 719 P.; Rudd. 1, p. 166, n. 100), f. (m., Cat. 64, 311; Prop. 4, 1, 72; 4, 9, 48) [root prob. kar-, to be bent or round; cf.: corona, curvus, collum],
- I. a distaff; sing. nom. colus, Tib. 2, 1, 63; Ov. M. 4, 229; Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 594; gen. colus, Val. Fl. 2, 148; acc. colum, * Cat. 64, 312; Ov. H. 9, 116; abl. colo, Tib. 1, 3, 86; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 72; Verg. A. 8, 409 (quoted by Prisc. p. 719 P.); Ov. Am. 2, 6, 46; id. A. A. 1, 702; App. de Mundo, p. 755: colu, Opimius ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 277; Stat. Th. 6, 380 (quoted by Prisc. p. 719); Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194; 21, 15, 53, § 90; and varying between colo and colu, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 48 (Kuin., Lachm., and Jacob., colu); plur. nom. colus, Stat. Th. 3, 242; 9, 839; acc. colos, Ov. F. 3, 818; Mart. 7, 47; 9, 18; Stat. S. 1, 4, 64; 3, 1, 172 (Bip. colus); id. Th. 5, 150; id. Achill. 1, 582; 1, 635; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 389; id. Idyll. 49, 87; Sen. Herc. Fur. 559; id. Herc. Oet. 668: colus, Val. Fl. 6, 445; 6, 645; Stat. Th. 10, 649 (varying, Juv. 14, 249; Ruperti, colus).
As an attribute of the Parcae, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 46; Stat. Th. 3, 242; 6, 380; Sen. Herc. Fur. 559.
- * II. Meton. for the thread spun, Sen. Herc. Oet. 668.
† cŏlūtĕa, ōrum, n., = κολουτέα, ἡ, a pod-like kind of fruit, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 7 dub. (Ritschl, colyphia).
colūthĭa, ōrum, n., a kind of snail of a dark color, Plin. 37, 7, 27, § 84; 32, 11, 53, § 147.