latium in English

noun
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an ancient region in west central Italy, west of the Apennines and south of the Tiber River. Settled during the early part of the 1st millennium bc by a branch of the Indo-European people known as the Latini, it was dominated by Rome by the end of the 4th century bc.

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1. From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as Old Latium (Latium Vetus), that is, the area between the river Tiber and the promontory of Mount Circeo 100 kilometres (62 mi) SE of Rome.

2. Cicero, in full Marcus Tullius Cicero, (born 106 bce, Arpinum, Latium [now Arpino, Italy]—died December 7, 43 bce, Formiae, Latium [now Formia]), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in …

3. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians.

4. Anzio, Latin Antium, town, Roma province, Lazio (Latium) region, Italy, located on a peninsula jutting into the Tyrrhenian Sea.

5. 2 Back home, impatient sports editors waited for them to file as they drank the Latium hills dry of Chianti.

6. 12 Daylight was dawning; a troop of horses coming from Latium caught sight of the shining helmet of Euryalus and challenged him.

7. Back-formation from Aborigines, plural, borrowed from Latin Aborīginēs, a pre-Roman people of Latium Note: The Latin name was variously interpreted by ancient authors, though modern etymologies tend to claim that the word is a parasynthetic derivative from the …

8. Aborigine (n.) "person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times," 1858, mistaken singular of aborigines (1540s; Aboriginal is considered the correct singular in English), from Latin aborigines "the first inhabitants," especially of Latium, hence "the first ancestors of the Romans;" possibly a tribal name, or from or made to conform to the Latin phrase ab

9. Aeneas (died 1206 BC) was a Trojan prince who, from 1240 to 1233 BC, led a band of Trojan refugees on a series of wanderings across the Mediterranean before finding a new homeland in Latium in central Italy.There, Aeneas married the daughter of the Latin king Latinus, founded the city of Lavinium as the new capital of the Latins, and became King of the Latins.