Chapter Colein to Colossos of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Colonna, to revenge his wrongs on the king, invites him to a banquet with intent to murder him, when the whole scheme of villainy is exposed. Ludovîco is slain, and Vicentio marries Evadne.—Shiel: Evadne, or the Statue (1820).

Colonna, the most southern cape of Attica. Falconer makes it the site of his “shipwreck” (canto iii.); and Byron says the isles of Greece—

…seen from far Colonna’s height, Make glad the heart that hails the sight, And lend to loneliness delight.
   —Byron: The Giaour (1813).

Colophon, the end clause of a book, containing the names of the printer and publisher, and the place where the book was printed; in former times the date and the edition were added also. Colophon was a city of Iona, the inhabitants of which were such excellent horsemen that they could turn the scale of battle; hence the Greek proverb to add a colophon meant to “put a finishing stroke to an affair.”

Colossians (The Epistle to the), written by “Paul the apostle” to the people of Colossœ, in Asia Minor, during his imprisonment at Rome. The first two chapters are doctrinal, and the latter two practical.

It resembles the Epistle to the Ephesians.

Colossos (Latin, Colossus), a gigantic brazen statue 126 feet high, executed by Charês for the Rhodians. Blaise de Vignenère says it was a striding figure; but comte de Caylus proves that it was not so, and did not even stand at the mouth of the Rhodian port. Philo tells us that it stood on a block of white marble; and Lucius Ampellius asserts that it stood in a car. Tickell makes out the statue to be so enormous in size that—

While at one foot the thronging galleys ride, A whole hour’s sail scarce reached the further side; Betwixt the brazen thighs, in loose array, Ten thousand streamers on the billows play.
   —Tickell: On the Prospect of Peace.