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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Colliciae

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COLLIC'IAE or COLLIQ'UIAE. Gutters, made with concave tiles, placed under the eaves of a house, for the purpose of carrying away the rain water from the roof, and conducting it into the impluvium. Festus, s. Inlicium. Vitruv. vi. 3.

2. Open drains or gutters in the country, for the purpose of carrying away the rain water from the lands into the ditches (fossae). Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. n. 2. Columell. ii. 8. 3.

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