I.a blow with the fist, a cuff, a box on the ear: “icere,” Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 65 Ritschl: “ducere,” Quint. 6, 3, 83.—In plur.: “in cerebro colaphos abstrudere,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 68; cf.: “infringere alicui,” Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 45; Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 130: “incutere alicui,” Juv. 9, 5: “perpeti,” Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 20; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 37.
cŏlăphus , i, m., = κόλαφος,