κολωνία (R G Tr), κολωνία (L T WH KC (cf. Chandler § 95)) (Tdf. editions 2, 7 κολωνεία; see his note on Acts as below, and cf. εἰ, ἰ), κολωνιας, ἡ (a Latin word), a colony: in Act_16:12 the city of Philippi is so called, where Octavianus had planted a Roman colony (cf. Dio Cassius, 51, 4; Digest. 50, tit. 15, 8). The exegetical difficulties of this passage are best removed, as Meyer shows, by connecting κολωνία closely with πρώτη πόλις, the chief city, a (Roman) colony (a colonial city); (but cf. Lightfoot's Commentary on Philippians, p. 50f).

κολωνία kolōnia 1x a Roman colony, Act_16:12

*† κολωνία , ( Rec. -ώνια ), -ας , ἡ ( < Lat. colonic), a colony: Act_16:12 ( v. Lft ., Phi., 50 f .).†

κολωνία [page 353] This designation is given to a settlement of veteran soldiers, established by Severus and Caracalla in the neighbourhood of the village Kerkesoucha in the Fayϋm, Chrest. I. 461 (beginning of iii/A.D.) : cf. also P Oxy III. 653 (A.D. 160 2) (κολωνεία bis ) and ib. XII. 1508 (ii/A.D.), which throws light on the manner in which the land was obtained. On the whole position of these coloniae , see Wilcken Archiv v. p 433 f., and the introd. to P Giss I. 60, p. 29. A fourth century inscr. from Eaccaea, Kaibel 908 .6 , ends εὐτυχίτω ἡ κολωνία .

κολωνία κολωνία, ἡ, the Lat. colonia, NTest.

κολωνία (Rec. -ώνια), -ας, ἡ (Lat. colonic), a colony: Act.16:12 (see Lft., Phi., 50 f.).† (AS)