colosseus

cŏlossēus (-ossiaeus, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 26), a, um, adj., = κολοσσιαῖος,

• colossal, huge, gigantic (post-Aug. prose): statuae, Plin. 34, 7, 18, § 39; cf. id. 36, 5, 4, § 26; Suet. Vesp. 23: colosseum se pingi Nero jussit, Plin. 35, 7, 33, § 51.

colossēus od. colossaeus, a, um (κολοσσαῖος) u. colossiaeus, a, um (κολοσσιαῖος), kolossal, in Riesengröße, statua colossea, Suet. Vesp. 23, 3: statua colossaea, Plin. 34, 39: utraeque (Virtus et Graecia) colossaeae, Plin. 34, 78: Mars colossiaeus, Plin. 36, 26: iusserat colosseum se pingi, Plin. 35, 51. – ➳ Lobeck Phryn. p. 542 wird die Form κολοσσαῖος verworfen.

cŏlossēus (16) (-æus), Suet. Vesp. 23, 3 et -sĭæus, a, um, Plin. 36, 26, colossal.

colosseus et, v. colossicoterus
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