cook-shopkeeper

Updated: August 27, 2026

This could not be done quickly and, he found us, meantime, lodgings with a friend of his, a fat, bald, one-eyed cook-shopkeeper named Colgius, who rented us a tiny room over his eating-room, which was not far from the Ostian Gate, between the public warehouses and the slope of the Aventine.

Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio : Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire