architecture, a peristyle of a circular figure; or a series of columns disposed in a circle, and infilled within side.

A Polystyle Colonnade, is that whose numbers of columns is too great to be taken in by the eye at a single view. Such is the colonnade of the palace of St Peter's at Rome, consisting of 284 columns of the Doric order, each above four feet and an half diameter, all in Tiberine marble.

Colonos, (anc. geog.) 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 Colonos. 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 Mitanthropos, (Paulanias).

Colsay, one of the Hebrides or Western Islands belonging to Scotland. It comprehends that of Oronsay, from which it is only separated in time of flood, and both belong to the same proprietor, viz. Mr McNeil. See Oronsay.