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This same vow Romulus had made many centuries before, but only the fanum, that is the site of the temple, had been consecrated.
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Cujus fanum aegrotantium multitudine refertum, undiquaque et tabellis pendentibus, in quibus sanati languores erant inscripti.
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Richardus Canonicus ad Trinitatis fanum Londini Regularis, ab ipsa pueritia, bonarum artium literas impense amauit, excoluit, ac didicit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ioannes Erigena Britannus natione, in Meneuia vrbe, seu ad fanum
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sallust has chosen this word in preference to the common _templa_ or _aedes_, because it conveys the idea of antiquity, sanctity, and mysterious seclusion, which is also contained in the word _fanum_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Edepol, ne tu, aula, multos inimicos habes 580 atque istuc aurum quod tibi concreditum est. nunc hoc mihi factu est optumum, ut ted auferam, aula, in Fidei fanum: ibi abstrudam probe.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Roman eyes, we may be startled to find him thinking of her as still in some sense surviving, and as divine rather than human: as a deity or spirit to whom a _fanum_ could be erected.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of _fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum_.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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The ashes of Tullia rested in the family tomb, but the godlike thing imprisoned in her mortal body was to be honoured at this _fanum_, which, strange as it may seem to us, her father wished to erect in a public and frequented place.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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He makes it clear to Atticus, who is acting as his business agent at Rome, that he does not want a mere tomb (_sepulcrum_), but a _fanum_, which as we have seen was the general word for a spot of ground sacred to a deity.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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