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colonus
[ kuh-loh-nuhs ]
noun
- a serf in the latter period of the Roman Empire or in the early feudal period.
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He lived to be ninety years old, and produced the most beautiful of his tragedies in his eightieth year, the "Oedipus at Colonus."
He argued that the Roman name was Colonus, which readily was transformed to a Spanish equivalent.
It will be admitted on all hands that this would be much too large a tenement for a serf or a semi-servile colonus.
In 405 Sophocles showed in his last play how Oedipus passed from earth in the poet's own birthplace, Colonus.
Then seek there a man by name of Tobias, a colonus and a worker in ivory for the good Christian priests.
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