Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonus
Literary usage of Colonus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"The " colonus " was also subject to military service in the sense that the landed
proprietors ... How One became a " colonus " and how he Ceased to be One. ..."
2. Greek Poets in English Verse by William Hyde Appleton (1893)
"... AT colonus, 668-719. PRAISE OF colonus. CHORUS. STRANGER, thou art standing
now On colonus' sparry brow ..."
3. The Later Roman Colonate and Freedom by Miroslava Mirković (1997)
"When land could no longer be pledged as security and the colonus no longer ...
The landlord owned it until the colonus had paid the rent.25 Thus the colonus ..."
4. Sophocles: with English notes by Sophocles, Fredericus H. M. Blaydes, Frederick Apthorp Paley (1859)
"... colonus. WHF.N Oedipus, in his younger days, went to Delphi to consult Apollo
as to his real parentage, the god among other things delivered an oracle ..."
5. Euripides, the Rationalist: A Study in the History of Arts and Religion by Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1895)
"Sacred colonus, home of the rider-god.1 The reference here is not to the legend
... So far as I know—I speak under correction—' sacred colonus ' had neither ..."
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