or COLOSEA (anc. geog.), a considerable town of Phrygia Magna, in which the Lyceus falls into a gulph, and at the distance of five stadia emerges again, and runs into the Meander (Herodotus). Other say, the genuine name is Colaffae, and the people Colaffenses, to whom St Paul wrote an epistle: Strabo calls them Coloffeni. In Nero's time the town was destroyed by an earthquake (Orofius).