Colliciae
Colliciae or COLLQUIAE
1. Gutters made with concave tiles (tegulae colliciares) for carrying away water from the roof (Vitr. 6.3; Cat. Agr. 14, 4; Fest. p. 114, M.).
2. Drains in the fields for draining the water into the ditches (Col. 2.8.3; Plin. Nat. 18.179).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.