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Pallade plācāta lānam mollīre puellae discant et plēnās exonerāre colōs.
Once Pallas's favor has been won: Let the girls learn to soften wool, and to unload their full distaffs. (‘‘Pallas’’ was an epithet for the patron of handicraft, the Greek goddess Athena, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. See distaff and spinning.)
“colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
colus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
colus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“colus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“colus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin