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COLLYBUS

Volume 7 · 45 words · 1842 Edition

(κολλύβης), 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 κολλύρια, collyria.