colone
Dictionary entries
- Entry →colonus, coloni:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
farmer, cultivator, tiller; tenant-farmer; settler, colonist; inhabitant;
voc. sg.
Examples
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Quid agis, custos carceris? LEON. O catenarum colone. LIB. O virgarum lascivia. LEON. Quot pondo ted esse censes..." Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...trahit pudorem, Semper pauperior redit potestas: Felix auriferae colone terrae, Rectorem vacuo sinu remittes Optabisque moras, et exeuntem..."- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...initium hexametri statim invenias, et anacreontion protinus colon efficies, et si velis trimetron, et quod duobus pedibus..." - C
Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...millibus plebis urbanae sexagenos denarios viritim dedi. Et colon[i]s militum meorum consul quintum ex manibiis viritim..."