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COLLYBUS

Volume 5 · 47 words · 1797 Edition

(κολλυβος), in antiquity, the same with what is now called the rate of exchange.

COLLYRÆ, or COLLYRIDES, in antiquity, a cer-

tain ornament of hair, worn by the women on their necks. It was made up in the form of the small roundish cakes called κολλυρια, collyra.