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COLLYBUS

Volume 6 · 46 words · 1823 Edition

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

COLLYRÆ, or COLLYRIDES, in antiquity, a certain ornament of hair, worn by the women on their necks. It was made up in the form of the small roundish cakes called καλλιβούς, collyræ.