Sidenote: Resemblance between the coloni and the later serfs.
This country has an unhealthy and cloudy atmosphere; it is subject to showers, and also to scorching heat; still its products are excellent.
One of these rivers is called Astaboras,[796] flowing along the eastern side of the island.
But he himself relates of these same parts what is much more liable to objection.
Its rivers are exhausted in watering plains, and by running into lakes.
When these are dried up, the elephants, with their trunks and tusks, dig holes and find water.
One of them contains salt water, and is called a sea; the other, fresh water, and is the haunt of hippopotami and crocodiles.
Pharos is a small oblong island, and lies quite close to the continent, forming towards it a harbour with a double entrance.
This is the account which we have to give of Egypt in general and summarily.
They were called Sisters from the concord which existed between them.
The custom is to adopt and educate the child in a princely manner as the future successor to the throne.
Their food consists of flesh and bones pounded together, wrapped up in skins and then baked, or prepared after many other methods by the cooks, who are called Acatharti, or impure.
As Alexandreia and its neighbourhood occupy the greatest and principal portion of the description, I shall begin with it.
After a march of six days from thence, he came to the river.
These then are two mouths of the Nile, one of which is called the Pelusiac, the other the Canobic and Heracleiotic mouth.
The people who live near the promontory of Pytholaus (and beginning from this place) do not [CAS.
That is, the maritime parts of Asia Minor, from Cape Coloni opposite Mitilini to Bajas, the ancient Issus.
There were so many coloni and casarii, who owned Eudemius as patronus and paid house and land rent yearly in money, produce, or service, who belonged to the estate and might not be sold without it.
With his familia, and the coloni and casarii who own him lord, he can call out near a thousand; though it would take time to gather all of these from his estates.
The Coloni may cultivate the soil--that is what their name denotes[561]; but the men whom we decorate with civic honours ought to live in cities.
By degrees, however, the exemption was extended to all the inhabitants of towns; and as it was strictly capitatio plebeia, from which all possessors were exempted it fell at length altogether on the coloni and agricultural slaves.
It was paid by the proprietor, who raised it again from his coloni and laborers.
When the door opened and Jacob appeared, Madame Coloni went hastily to meet him.
Madame Coloniclapped her hands and reminded Jacob of his promise to relate a history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coloni" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
