colony Copy link • colony: cŏlōnia (used both of the settlers and of the settlement): to establish a c. in suitable places, c. collocare idoneis in locis, Cic.: to conduct a c. (to a place), c. deducere, Cic.: to send men to a c., homines in c. mittere, Liv. Phr.: to send out a c. to the Chersonesus, Chersonesum colonos mittere, Nep.: to settle a c. in a territory, colonos in agris collocare: cf. Nep. Milt. 2.