Colias

2 Cōlias, ădis, Avien. Perieg. 1355, et Cōlis, ĭdis, f. , Mela 3, 39, promontoire de lʼInde [en face de Taprobane].

Co'lias

(Κωλιάς), a surname of Aphrodite, who had a statue on the Attic promontory of Colias. (Paus. 1.1.4; comp. Hdt. 8.96; Schol. ad Aristoph. Nub. 56.) Strabo (ix. p.398) places a sanctuary of Aphrodite Colias in the neighbourhood of Anaphlystus. [L.S]

COLIAS

COLIAS [ATHENAE 305b.]

Colias

(Κωλίας). A promontory on the west coast of Attica, twenty stadia south of Phalerum, with a temple of Aphrodité, where some of the Persian ships were cast after the battle of Salamis.

Colias Colias, adjective of an Attic promontory where wrecks were driven ashore after Salamis

• Hdt. 8.96
• cape in Attica: Paus. 1.1.5