accola

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

accŏla, ae, c. [accolo],

a dweller by or near a place , a neighbor ( incola , one who dwells in a place): optati cives, populares, incolae, accolae, advenae, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 1: pastor accola ejus loci, Liv. 1, 7, 5; 37, 53; Tac. A. 2, 68; Verg. A. 7, 729 al.: accolae Cereris, i. e. dwellers at her temple , Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111.—In Tacitus, adj., of the tributary streams of the Tiber: Tiberim accolis fluviis orbatum, the neighboring rivers , A. 1, 79. (The Vulg. uses this word in the sense of incola : accola in terra, Psa. 104, 23; Act. 7, 6: terrae, Lev. 18, 27.)

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