COLONOS, in Ancient Geography, an eminence near Athens, whither Oedipus, after his banishment from Thebes, is said to have retired; and hence it is that Sophocles calls the tragedy on the subject Oedipus Colonus. A place sacred to Neptune, and where stood an equestrian statue of him. Here also stood Timon's tower; who, for his love of solitude, and hatred to mankind, was called Misanthropos, (Paufania).