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 644 COLLATIA. liacum, Colis, and Colias, refer to one and the same district That it was N. of Cape Comorin is quite clear; and if Colias and Colin be one and the same, it is dear that it was not far to the N., as Dionysins (▼. 951) evident! J describes the former as opposite to CeyUm. Ptolemy and Marcian connect with CalU- jCicnm another promontory, which they call Cory (Kmpv Aicpo¥ a projecting strip of land to the E. ^ the Sinut Colchieus : it has been supposed by Bitter (ErdL ▼. p. 517) to be the same as the present Pakbanf opposite the bland of JUmuman Kor. Pliny( Ti. 20. s. 23) speaks of a Promontory Calin- gon, — doabUess the Calligicum of PUdemy. [V.] COLLA'TIA (KoAAoria : £ih, KoAAaruwf, Col- latinos: Castel ddC Osa), an ancient city of La- tiam, sitnated aboat 10 miles E. of Rome, between Gabii and the Anio. Viigil notices it as one of the colonies of Alba Longa (^en. vi. 774); a clear proof that he considered it as a Latin town; and Dio- nysins alw distinctly attributes it to that people: it is strange, therefore, that Livy speaks of it as if it had been a Sabine city previous to its conquest by the Romans. The first occasion on which its name appears in history is during the reign of Tarquinios Prisons, by whom it was reduced to a state of sub- jection to Borne. (Li v. i. 38 ; Dicmys. iiL 50.) Livy has preserved to us the funnula of " deditio" on this occasion, and there can be no doubt that the fact is historically true, as the city never appears again as an independent state. Tarquin is said to have esta- blished a garrison there, whence he is erroneously represented by some late grammarians as the founder of the city (Serv. ad Aen, vi. 744): he at the same time appointed his nephew Egerius as governor, who in consequence obtained the surname of Collatinus, which he transmitted to his descendants; and Lucius Tarqoinius, the husband of Lucreda, is represented as residing at Collatia at the time of the siege of Ardea. (Liv. i. 57 — ^59; Dionys. iv. 64.) Silius Italieas also represents it as the birthpkoe of the elder Brutus (viii. 363); but there is no other au- thority for this. No subsequent mention of Collatia occurs in history; but it appean to have gradually declined. Cicero incidentally notices it as one of the municipal towns of Latium which was in his time in a very decayed condition. Stnbo tells us it was reduced to a mere village, and Pliny enumerates it among the ** populi " of ancient Latium which were then no longer in existence. (Cic. deL^. Agr, iL 35 ; Strab. V. p. 230; Plin. iii 5. s. 9.) This is the kst mention ii the name that we meet with ; but the memory of its existenoe was preserved by the Via Collatia or Collatina, which is noticed more than once by Frontinus (de AijwudMci. 5, 10), from whom we learn that it lay to the left of the Via Praenes- tina, from which it was separated by a short in- terval. This is the only clue to the position of Collatia, the site of which has in consequence been generally fixed at a place called Castellaccio or Cattel ddP OiOf a mined castle of the middle ages, on the N. bank of a little stream called the Osa, little more than 2 miles from its confluence with the Anio, and about the same distance from the site of Galni. There remain on this spot some very incon- sidnable fragments of walls on the side towards the stream, where it presents a steep and abrupt hoo of tufo rock, but on the other side it is wholly without defences, and Cell is of opinion that the site was little adapted for that of an ancient dty. Hence he inclines (as well as Westpfaal) to place Collatia at LmghazOf another mediaeral fortress on a bdd and COLONA& neariy isolated hill just above the ooofliMDee of tlia Oaa with the Anio. The position of Limtgketsa is certainly one better adapted by nature for the site of an ancient city than that of Cattel dell Oea, and would acocMrd much better with Viigirs expresBions (** Collatinas imponent montibns arces," ^en. L c) but no ruins have been discovered there. (G^. Tvp. of Borne, pp. 171— 175; Nibby, />Mtonit, voL I ppw 478 — 482; Westphal, Rom, Kampagme, pp. 100» 101 : Abeken, MiOel Ital. p. 78.) [£. H. B.] COLLOPS MAGNUS or CULLU (K<(XXo^ m«- yms 1l K6Kov, Ptol. iv. 3. § 3; Chulli Municipiam, /(m. Ant p. 19 ; Chnllu, Tab, PeuL ; Chulla, Solin. 29 ; CoUo, Bu.), a dty of Numidia, upon a head- land on the W. side of the Snus Olcachites {Bag qfStorah), £. of the Pr. Tretum, and 50 M. P. we»t of Rusicada, celebrated for its purple-dyeing esta- blishments, and probably, therefore, a Phoenician colony. (Brun,4/^'U»>P*214.) Ptolemy mentioDs a KiWa^ /xitpo^ considerably to the E. of this, in a position apparently near the opposite side of the bay. (PtoL iWd § 4.) [P.&] COLLYTUS. [ATHiaf AE, p. 302.] COLOBATUS. [CoBULATUs.] CCXLOBI (KoAo«o(, Diod. iii. 32; Agatharefa. p. 46; PtoL iv. 7. § 28), a tribe of Troglodytes situated on a strip of luid in the vidnity of the promontory of Bazium in lat. 24^ N., and on the western shore of the Red Sea. Ptolemy (iv. 7. § 7) mentions a mountain (Koofhw fipos, &jrpor), and Strabo (xvi. p 771) a forest, of the Colobi (KaAo««v &K. bably a dwarfish people, and among the varieties of the Aethio{)ict race whose low stature or deformity led finally to the fable of the Pygmies. The region which they inhabited was barren, and they were ex- cluded from the pasture grounds to the west of it bj their stronger kinsmen or neighbours. Hence their diet was prindpally slidl-fish and the casual pro- ducts of Uie chose, and their curtailed proportiona were confirmed by their poor diet. [W. B. D.3 COLOE (KoK6fi Xifunri, Ptol. iv. 7. § 24, 31 ; Steph. Byz. s. v.), a lake in Aethiopia, lat 12^ N^ through which flows, but with little intermixture of their several waters, the river Astapus {Bahr-^i^ AtreJc)^ the Blue or Dark River. The hdce Coloe is probably the "¥*€(& or Y^$«m of Strabo (xvii. p^ 822), and is the modem Lake Dembea or Ttana, There was also in Aethiopia a town named CoIoS (KoAifif 'w6is, Ptol. iv. 7. § 25) of which the site is un- certain (Airian, Peripl. Afar, Erythr, p. 3; Mannert. Geograph. voL xii. p. 167). [W. B. D.] COLO'NAE (KoAtfvoi) or COLONE, a town in the Trosd, 140 stadia from Ilium. (Strab. pp. 589, 604; Thuc. L 131; Xen. HeU. iiL 1. § 13; Psns. X. 14. § 1.) According to tradition, Colonae was in early times the residence of a Thradan prince Cycnus, who possessed the adjoining country and the isUnd of Tenedos, opposite to which Coknae wrbs situated on the mainland. Colonae was prt^blj one of the towns from which the inhabitants were removed to supply the popuh&tion of Alexandria in Troas. Pliny (v. 30) phices it in the interior, and