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241 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus intro, section 11
   In the absence of a distinguishing epithet, "Colonus" would usually mean Colonus Hippius; Thucydides calls it simply Colonus, and describes it as "a sanctuary ( (32.13)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *k, entry kolwno/s
   Colonus, deme of Attica, sacred to the hero Colonus ( (30.80)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter A
   more usually Colonus Agoraeus, or Misthius ( (23.33)

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1 from Renaissance Materials

1. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   And when my father died in that time when newes were brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genuese had discovered the coasts of India, whereof was great talke in all the Court of king Henry the 7. who then raigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine then humane, to saile by the West into the East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing. (2.09)

1 from American Memory: California

1. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 19
   Sophocles retired from busy Athens to lovely Colonus. (2.03)