colluvio

collŭvĭo ( conl- ), ōnis, and collŭvĭ-es, em, ē (the latter form not freq. before the Aug. per.; but exclusively used by Col., Pliny the elder, and Tac.; a third collat. form collŭvĭum, acc. to Isid. Diff. Verb. 40), f. [colluo], a conflux or collection of filth, washings, sweepings, draff, swill.

I.

Prop.

(α).

Colluvies, Dig. 43, 22, 1, §§

2 and 4: cohortis et aedificii,

Col. 2, 15, 8; cf. id. 1, 6, 24; 1, 5, 6:

turbida nigro limo,

Luc. 4, 311; Plin. 24, 19, 116, § 176.—

(β).

Colluvio:

colluvionibus sentinarum,

Arn. 5, p. 172.—

II.

More freq. trop., the impure conflux of different objects, dregs, impurities, impure mixture, vile medley, offscourings.

(α).

Colluvio:

mixtorum omnis generis animantium,

Liv. 3, 6, 3:

cum ex hac turbā et colluvione discedam,

Cic. Sen. 23, 85; cf. Non. p. 82, 9:

o praeclarum diem, omnium scelerum,

Cic. Sest. 7, 15:

rerum,

Liv. 3, 11, 5:

deterrima verborum,

Gell. 1, 15, 17:

colluvionem gentium adferre,

a polluting mixture, Liv. 4, 2, 5:

mixti ex omni colluvione exsules obaerati, etc.,

id. 26, 40, 17; cf. id. 22, 43, 2:

in colluvione Drusi,

the dregs of the people adhering to him, the rabble, Cic. Vat. 9, 23;

Cod. Th. 13, 3, 7: ordinum hominum,

Curt. 10, 2, 6:

sanguinis peregrini et servilis,

Suet. Aug. 40; Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 11.—

(β).

Colluvies, Atticus ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 7:

rerum,

Tac. H. 2, 16 fin.; cf. absol., id. A. 14, 15; 14, 44; id. H. 5, 12:

nationum,

id. A. 2, 55:

collecta populi,

Just. 2, 6, 4.