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A colonus was a tenant farmer from the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages. Known plurally as coloni or colonate, these farmers were sharecroppers, who paid back landowners with a portion of their crops, in exchange for use of their farmlands. The coloni's tenant-landlord relationship eventually degraded into one of debt and dependence. As a result, the colonus became a new type of land tenancy, in which the occupants were placed in a state between freedom and slavery.
Colonus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Colonus species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina. All members of the genus have two pairs of bulbous spines on the ventral side of the first tibiae. The function of these spines is unknown. Colonus was declared a junior synonym of Thiodina by Eugène Simon in 1903, but this was reversed by Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz in 2015.
Colonus may refer to:
- Colonus (person), a tenant farmer from the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages
- Colonus (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
- Kolonos, a modern neighborhood in Athens
- Hippeios Colonus, an ancient deme near Athens
- Agoraios Kolonos, a hill near the Temple of Hephaestus
- Kolonos Hill, a hill in Central Greece
Usage examples of "colonus".
She remembered the last time she had seen him, at the suburb of Colonus, near Athens.
Why did the bricked-in windows of the warehouse in Colonus rise up again behind her?
With the Dipylum as a starting-point, there is no difficulty in supposing that, in very ancient times, the Limnae extended to Colonus Agoraeus, to the east into the hollow which became a portion of the agora in the Ceramicus, and to the west into the depression between Colonus Agoraeus and the Hill of the Nymphs.
Unfortunately, these diggings have not been extensive enough to restore the topography of the west and southwest slopes of Colonus Agoraeus.
Athens had its philosopher of the frugal life: in a cabin of the village of Colonus, Demonax was leading an exemplary but merry existence.
Hales, however, thinks that some particular vale is here alluded to, and argues, with much acumen, that the poet referred to the woodlands close by Athens to the north-west, through which the Cephissus flowed, and where stood the birthplace of Sophocles, who sings of his native Colonus as frequented by nightingales.
At that period Athens had its philosopher of the frugal life: in a cabin of the village of Colonus, Demonax was leading an exemplary but merry existence.
I coloni ritornano a casa, le colonie vengono abbandonate e si estinguono.