a province in Asia; east of the Black Sea
Latin word, found 59 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.54: … quem heroicis temporibus Acantho Rhodi peperisse dicitur, pater Ialysi Camiri Lindi, unde Rhodii, quintus qui Colchis fertur Aeetam et Circam procreavisse. Volcani item complures:
Ovid, Amores 2.14.29: Colchida respersam puerorum sanguine culpant
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.296: posse suis reddi, capit hoc a Colchide munus.