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Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 6 km (3.7 mi) to the
south of Rome,
midway between the
Tiber river at
Ostia and Antium. The
coastline then, as now...
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Lavinium, on the west
coast of the
Italian Peninsula southwest of Rome.
Roman writers regarded it as the
original capital of Italy,
before Lavinium ****umed...
- The
public cult of the
ancestral gods of the
Roman people originated in
Lavinium,
where they were also
closely linked with Vesta. One
tradition identified...
- said of Alba
Longa that it was
founded by
Ascanius to
relieve crowding at
Lavinium. He
placed it at the foot of the
Alban Mount and said that it took its...
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Latins with a
federal cult at the
temple named Frutinal in
Lavinium.
Inscriptions found at
Lavinium attest the
presence of
federal cults,
without giving precise...
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Traces of
occupation have been
found in the
general region –
including Lavinium and the
coast near Ardea –
going back to the 15th century BC. The area...
- city of Rome for a
number of years,
before Tatius was
slain in a riot at
Lavinium,
where he had gone to make a sacrifice.
Shortly before, a
group of envoys...
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founding of
Lavinium,
Ascanius founded the city of Alba
Longa and
became its
first king. He left
Lavinia in
charge of the city of
Lavinium.
Ascanius was...
- or City boundary.
There was also an
important Latin cult-centre at
Lavinium.
Lavinium hosted the cult of the Penates, or
Latin ancestor-gods.
Cornell suggests...
- Indiges,
singular in form, is
applied to Sol (Sol Indiges) and to
Jupiter of
Lavinium,
later identified with Aeneas. One
theory holds that it
means the "speaker...
