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incola

incola · comm

an inhabitant

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

incŏla — Lewis & Short

incŏla, ae, comm. (f.

Phaedr. 1, 6, 6; Prud. Ham. 642) [in-colo],
I an inhabitant of a place, a resident.
I Lit.: optati cives, populares, incolae, accolae, advenae omnes, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 1: incola est, qui in aliquam regionem domicilium suum contulit, quem Graeci pa/roikon appellant, Dig. 50, 16, 239: opp. civis; peregrini autem atque incolae officium est, etc., a foreign resident ( = Gr. me/toikos), Cic. Off. 1, 34, 125; cf.: Tarquinium, non Romanae modo sed ne Italicae quidem gentis, . . incolam a Tarquiniis ... regem factum, Liv. 4, 3, 11: incola et his magistratibus parere debet, apud quos incola est, et illis, apud quos civis est, Dig. 50, 1, 29; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26; 2, 4, 58, § 130: sunt enim e terra homines, non ut incolae atque habitatores, id. N. D. 2, 56, 140: Coloneus ille locus cujus incola Sophocles ob oculos versabatur, id. Fin. 5, 1, 3: (Socrates) totius mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur, id. Tusc. 5, 37, 108: audiebam Pythagoram Pythagoreosque incolas paene nostros, almost our countrymen, id. de Sen. 21, 78: Pergama, Incola captivo quae bove victor alat, Ov. H. 1, 52: Phryx, Luc. 9, 976: Idumæae Syrophoenix portae, Juv. 8, 160.— Poet., in apposition, or adj., Cameren incola turba vocat, the natives, Ov. F. 3, 582.—
II Transf., of animals and inanimate things: aquarum incolae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 38: rana stagni incola, Phaedr. 1, 6, 5: novum incolam (piscem) mari dedit, Plin. 9, 17, 29, § 63: quae (arbores) incolarum numero esse coepere, i. e. indigenous, id. 12, 3, 7, § 14: Addua, Ticinus, Mincius, omnes Padi incolae, i. e. flowing into the Po, id. 3, 19, 23, § 131: me Porrectum ante fores obicere incolis Plorares aquilonibus, native, Hor. C. 3, 10, 4.

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