COLO´NIS
COLO´NIS an island mentioned by Pliny (
4.12. s. 19) as off the coast of Argolis. From the order in which he enumerates the names, and from Colonis occurring in his text in the place of Hydreia ( “Tiparenus, Aperopia, Colonis, Aristera, Calauria,” ), Leake conjectures that Colonis and Hydreia were one and the same island (
Peloponnesiaca, p. 286); but Kiepert gives the name of Colonis to the small island S. of
Spétzia.