To rouse him from his sloth and stupor, Catullus asks to have him thrown head over heels- Munus hoc mihi maximi da, colonia, risus- from a rickety old bridge into the deepest and dirtiest part of the quagmire over which it was built.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
He happened to be in colonia on the occasion of Elio's declaration of war against the Creoles and at once fled to Buenos Aires.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
A century elapsed after the foundation of Buenos Aires before colonia was occupied by the Portuguese, and another fifty years went by before Montevideo had been settled and fortified.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson