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.
COLONY Copy link • COLONYa number of persons (migrating to a place to cultivate the land, etc.), colonia: coloni: to send out a colony to a place, coloniam or colonos mittere in aliquem locum: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum: deductio coloniarum in aliquem agrum (the colonization). The place itself, colonia: to establish a colony, coloniam condeie: at some place, coloniam in aliquo loco constituere, collocare: relating to a colony, colonicus.