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  Lavinium - LoveToKnow 1911
The citizens of Lavinium were known under the empire as Laurentes Lavinates, and the place itself at a late period as Laurolavinium.
Lavinium was preceded by a more ancient town, Laurentum, the city of Latinus (Verg.
The exact date of the abandonment of the town itself and the incorporation of its territory with that of Lavinium is uncertain, but it may be placed in the latter part of the republic.
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 Lavinium
Wellicht kunnen wij uw Lavinium ook laten uitgroeien naar een Rome.
In juni 2006 richte Lavinium de studenten Internet TV www.I-See.tv op I-See.tv is de Internet TV zender door en voor studenten.
Ook heeft Lavinium een rol betekent in het aantrekken van de financiële middelen om deze business cases te realiser...
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  LAVINIUM - LoveToKnow Article on LAVINIUM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is no trace of its having continued into imperial times, but the cults of Lavinium were kept up, largely by the imperial appointment of honorary non-resident citizens to hold the priesthoods.
The citizens of Lavinium were known under the empire as Laurentes Lavinates, and the place itself at a late period as Laurolavinium.
The exact date of the abandonment of the town itself and the incorporation of its territory with that of Lavinium is uncertain, but it may be placed in the latter part of the republic.
58.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAVINIUM.htm   (714 words)

  
 Lavinium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavinium was an ancient Roman city of the Latium, said to have been named by Aeneas in honor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Latins, and his wife, Amata.
He did not found Rome but Lavinium, the main centre of the Latin league, from which the people of Rome sprang.
The foundation of Lavinium and the Rutulian war are both mentioned prominently in the great Roman epic, the Aeneid by the Mantuan poet Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lavinium   (177 words)

  
 LAVINIUM - Online Information article about LAVINIUM
Lavinium was preceded by a more ancient town, LAURENTUM, the city of Latinus (Verg.
close to the sea-coast and 5 M. by W. of Lavinium.
It is impossible without further excavation to reconcile the remains—mainly of substructions—with the elaborate description of his villa given by Pliny (cf.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LAVINIUM.html   (1067 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lavinium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that...
One leads the victim, a sow, and the other carries a dish of fruit and an ewer (an earthenware jug).
There is a temple above their heads, positioned at a height, most probably the temple to the Penates which Aeneas built on the Lavinium hilltop.
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...by a votive inscription to the Greek gods Castor and Pollux at the pan-Latin sanctuary at Lavinium, by the syncretization in Rome of native and Greek deities, and...
It is said that he was at Lavinium offering a public sacrifice to the ancestral gods, when some...
...reproaches against each other; until news was brought that the enemy had laid close siege to Lavinium, where were the images and sacred things of their tutelar gods,...
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 The Baldwin Project: Romulus by Jacob Abbott
Accordingly, while he and Romulus were at Lavinium offering the sacrifices, news came that the murderers of the envoys, on their way from Rome to Lavinium, had been rescued and allowed to escape.
This news so exasperated the people of Lavinium against Tatius, for they considered him as unquestionably the secret author and contriver of the deed, that they rose upon him at the festival, and murdered him with the butcher knives and spits which had been used for slaughtering and roasting the animals.
The government of Lavinium, as soon as the excitement of the scene was over, fearing [301] the resentment which they very naturally supposed Romulus would feel at the murder of his colleague, seized the ringleaders of the riot, and sent them bound to Rome, to place them at the disposal of the Roman government.
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 26
Bystanders may be amused to note that the Sea of Crises resembles the face of a teddy bear, or perhaps a hedgehog.
The "bridge" extends from Promontorium Lavinium to Promontorium Olivium, and is visible at sunset but not at sunrise; try for it about four nights after full moon.
The 'delta' formed by Promontoria Lavinium and Olivium and the crater 'E' (Peirce E? Picard E? Yerkes E?), Yerkes and a ridge joining Yerkes and E was well lit and well distinguished from the rest of the floor of Mare Crisium by the shadow of the two craters and the ridge between them.
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 LAVINIUM - Encyclopedia Britannica - LAVINIUM - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LAVINIUM, an ancient town of Latium, on the so-called Via Lavinatis (see LAURENTINA, VIA), 19 M. of Rome, the modern PRATICA, situated 300 ft. above sea-level and 21 M. from the sea-coast.
The citizens of Lavinium were known under the empire as Laurentes Lavinates, and the place itself at a
The site of the ancient Lavinium, no less than 300 ft. above sea-level and 22 M. inland, is far healthier than the low-lying Laurentum, where, except in the immediate vicinity of the coast, malaria must have been a dreadful scourge.
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 Lavinium --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Here he is supposed to have built a temple establishing the worship of the household gods, the Penates.
Certain classes of Roman officials sacrificed regularly at Lavinium to the Penates and Vesta.
Lavinium remained loyal to Rome in the wars of the 5th and 4th centuries
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9047396   (440 words)

  
 NUMINA
Lavinium was believed to have been founded by Aneneas when he landed in Italy.
Excavations at Lavinium revealed a row of thirteen imposing altars in an open sanctuary outside the town.
But details of dress, armor, and figure of Triton (man with a fish’s tail) suggest that it was a specific Greek type from Athena’s sanctuary of Alalkomenai in Boeotia and evoking legend of her birth from a stream called Triton close by.
www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/1numen.html   (2935 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 687   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This worship was introduced by Numa from Lavinium, whither jEneas had brought the Pgnates and the sacred fire from Troy.
Hence it was that Roman consuls and dictators, on taking up and laying down their office, sacrificed in the temple of Vesta at Lavinium.
It was customary in Italy as in Greece for the colonies to kindle the fire of their own Vesta at the hearth of the mother city.
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0690.html   (787 words)

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