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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient country of west-central Italy bordering on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was dominated by Rome after the third century BC.
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- proper noun A region of central
Italy .
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- noun an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea
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The Aurunci, provoked at this an - fwer, entered Latium, and advanced as far as Aricia j 73, iw» where they were met by the Roman army, under the runci enter command of Servilius, and the famous Pofthumius, fur - Latium* named Regillenfis, from the vi&ory he had gained over the Latins at the lake Regillus.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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Lavinia's pre-Roman Latium is pagan, of course, but does not have the anthropomorphised gods that Virgil knows.
February Books 16) Lavinia, by Ursula Le Guin nwhyte 2010
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Thereupon Æneas founded a city which he named Lavinium and the country was called Latium and the people there were termed Latins.
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If you will look at the map of Italy on the opposite page, you will find near the middle of the peninsula and facing the west coast a district called Latium, [1] and Rome its capital.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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The country in which the Trojans had now landed was called Latium, and
Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880
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Hannibal (in profile) as a youth © Clipart. comAt first, Rome was just one small city-state in the area of Latin-speaking people known as Latium, on the west side of the peninsula of Italy.
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But the real masters of estival retreat were the Romans and the Renaissance popes and princes who followed them into the hills of Latium.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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First, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, will celebrate Pontifical Mass and ordain five priests for the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FFI) in the church of St. Francis in Tarquinia (a small town in Latium) on the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March 2009) at 10 a.m.
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As mentioned earlier, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, today celebrated Pontifical Mass in the usus antiquior and ordained five priests for the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FFI) in the church of St. Francis in Tarquinia (a small town in Latium).
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People from the Italian region of Lazio (Latium in Latin), of course would have top claim to the name (as in fact they do in many other contexts).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Cardozo as “Hispanic” or “Latino”: 2009
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