COLOSSÆ, or COLOSEÆ, in Ancient Geography, a considerable town of Phrygia Magna, in which the Lycus falls into a gulf, and at the distance of five stadia emerges again, and runs into the Meander (Herodotus). Others say, the genuine name is Colossie, and the people Colossenses, to whom St Paul wrote an epistle: Strabo calls them Colosseni. In Nero's time the town was destroyed by an earthquake (Orosius).