GRGR(15) sus per coll

[Jeremy Osner]

I was wondering what "sus. per coll." (p. 329) meant; a web search
brought me to the home page of Blandy & Blandy, an "11 partner firm of
solicitors based in Reading, Berkshire with origins dating back to
1733," wherein I read:

The Blandy family is not without skeletons in its closet. Mary Blandy
was the daughter of the Town Clerk of
 Henley-upon-Thames. Having allegedly poisoned her father, she took
refuge in the Little Angel in Henley. To no avail,
 however, and after one of the earliest cases in which forensic evidence
was given as to the nature of the "love philters"
 administered to her father - to wit, arsenic - she was hanged (or, as
the old records put it, died sus per coll.) at Oxford
 in 1752 and buried in a grave with her father and mother. That branch
of the Blandy family has no descendants.

I'm guessing it stands for "suspended by the neck" in Latin, though I
don't know Latin for neck -- ah, here it is: collum = neck. Anyone know
what the endings on suspens- and coll- are? I'm not gonna even guess.
Anyway, learning this confirmed my hunch that "dangling...off the
Slothrop family tree" was a way of saying they had been hanged. Only one
of them was a witch, though; presumably the others were common
criminals.

--
The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which,
during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel,
mechanically testing whether there were still plenty
left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the
placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason
at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick
reading, already downhill, and -- O horrible!

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.readin.com/books/invitationbeheading/