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

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

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

Probably there has seldom been such a colluvies gentium assembled.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Add to all this the colluvies of false philosophies of every land, and of every date.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green