I.to filter, strain, to clarify, purify (post-Aug.): “ceram,” Col. 9, 16, 1: “mel,” id. 12, 11, 1: “vinum sportā palmeā,” Pall. Febr. 27: “sucum linteo,” Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164: “thymum cribro,” Col. 7, 8, 7: “aliquid per linteum,” Scrib. Comp. 271: “ad colum,” Veg. 2, 28, 19: “per colum,” Apic. 4, 2: “aurum,” App. Flor. p. 343, 20: “terra colans,” Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38: “faex colata,” id. 31, 8, 44, § 95.—Poet.: “amnes inductis retibus,” i. e. to spread out a fish-net, Manil. 5, 193.—Hence, cōlātus , a, um, P. a., cleansed, purified (post-class.): “nitor (beryllorum),” Tert. Anim. 9.—
cōlo , āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. colum,