a town of Italy, in the Parmafan, near the river Po, eight miles from Parma. The duke of Parma has a pleasure-house here, one of the most delightful seats in all Italy, and the gardens are very fine. E. Long. 9. 15. N. Lat. 44. 54.

COLOSSÆ, or COLOSEE, 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 Colossae, 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 (Orofius).