colluvies

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It was literally, as Livy says, a "colluvies omnium gentium," which rolled down from the Alps, under his direction, to overwhelm the Romans on their own hearths.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

In malignant fevers wines abounding with fixed air may be administered, to check the septic ferment, and sweeten the putrid colluvies in the primæ viæ.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph

The Tónkawa were a migratory people and a colluvies gentium, whose earliest habitat is unknown.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Now Venice was, as it is now, a place colluvies gentium.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Looking at the divine inhabitants of the city in that year, we may see in them almost as much a colluvies nationum as in the human population itself.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde