Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Colonus

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. 

COLO'NUS. A yeoman or farmer; i. e. one who gains a livelihood by the cultivation of the soil, whether as a tenant farmer, or one who tills his own land. Varro, R. R. ii. Proem. 5. Columell. i. 7. Scaevola, Dig. 33. 7. 20.

2. A colonist. Cic. N. D. iii. 19. Justin. xvi. 3.