place
Colchis
also: Colchicis, Colchis
The land at the eastern end of the Black Sea, home of Medea and a byword for sorcery and poisons; 'shameless Colchis' is Medea herself.
Reading notes
- The Odes §2.13 Colchian poisons
The witch-poisons of Colchis, land of Medea, that the planter of the tree is fit to have handled.
- The Odes §4.4 Colchis
Neither Colchis nor Thebes 'sent up a greater monster' than resurgent Rome.
- The Epodes §5 Colchian
Colchis, Medea's homeland at the east of the Black Sea, byword for sorcery; the witches' fire is 'Colchian.'