colon

cōlon or cōlum, i, n. (cōlus, i, m., Ser. Samm. 31, 1), = κῶλον (a member).

• The colon or great gut (the largest of the intestines), Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 202.—Esp., as the part affected by the colic: coli tormentum, Plin. 22, 22, 37, § 79: coli dolor, Scrib. Comp. 122.—Hence,
• • B A disease of the colon, the colic, Plin. 20, 15, 57, § 162; 31, 9, 45, § 102; Scrib. Comp. l. l.; Ser. Samm. l. l.—
• II Transf., a member of a verse (pure Lat. membrum), * Quint. 9, 4, 78; of a poem, Aug. ap. Don. Vit. Verg. c. 12.

cōlon od. cōlum, ī, n. (κῶλον, ein Glied des Körpers; dah.) I) der Grimmdarm, Plin. u. Scrib. – meton., der Darmkrampf, die Kolik, Plin. u.a. – Nbf. cōlus, ī, m., Ser. Samm. 579. – II) übtr., das Glied eines Verses, Quint.: eines Gedichts, August. b. Donat.: einer Periode, Ascon.

1 colon, ~um [CL < κόλον] , gut, large intestine. ~um, hrop Ælf. Gl.; quintum [intestinum] est ~on, dictum a colando quia ab eo quidlibet velocius quam ab ileon excolatur Ric. Med. Anat. 224; Gilb. V 226v. 1; Gad. 93v. 1 (v. colicus); ~on est intestinum quo colantur stercora SB 17; hic ~us, a nestarme WW; ~on illi [sc. recto] continuatur et in ascensu renem sinistrum ambit D. Edw. Anat. A4.

2 colon [CL < κῶλον] , ‘colon’ (gram.), part of a line of verse or passage of prose. grammaticorum periodos ~o et commate sequestratim distinctas ‥ instruendo Aldh. VirgP 32; cō aque cum pedibus pergant et commata ternis Id. VirgV 47; ubi post duos pedes superest syllaba, comma dicitur; ubi post duos pedes nihil remanet, ~on vocatur; quae tamen nomina apud oratores indifferenter ponuntur, qui integram sententiam periodon appellant, partes autem ejus ~a et commata dicunt. ‥ interpretatur autem ~on ‘membrum’, comma ‘incisio’ Bede AM 2369; distinguens seusus, titulos, cŏla, commata voce Alcuin Carm. 69. 185; ad prosam pertinet ‥ conveniens distinctio orationum per ~a, commata et periodos Bacon Tert. 234; ubi decurrit sententia, non tamen adhuc finitur sed ad aliud tenditur, fit ~on. et comma habet pausationem parum flexam, ~on vero elevatam, periodus perfecte descendit Ib. 248.

cōlŏn ou cōlum, ī, n. , (κῶλον), ¶ 1 le côlon [lʼun des gros intestins] : coli dolor Scrib. Comp. 122, colique || colique : Plin. 20, 162 ¶ 2 a) partie, portion dʼun ouvrage, morceau : August. d. Suet. Frg. 61, 17 ; b) [gramm.] membre de phrase : Isid. Orig. 2, 18, 1 ; c) partie de vers : Quint. 9, 4, 78.

colon , li. n.
大腸。絞腸疼。股中一句。

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Colon

(κῶλον). “A limb.” A name given by the rhetoricians to the divisions or members of a composition. Much has been written by modern critics of the alleged “colometry,” or arrangement into periods (κῶλα), of the orations of Demosthenes, in which they profess to see a rhythmical rule that produces an harmonious effect, as in the odes of Pindar; though the determination of each κῶλον is very arbitrary. See Blass in the Rheinisches Museum for 1869, p. 524, and his Attische Beredsamkeit, on Demosthenes, pp. 105 foll. Also Mahaffy's Hist. of Class. Greek Lit. vol. i. pp. 343-346 (1880).