-
considered dialects of
archaic Latin:[citation needed]
Lanuvian and
Praenestine. As the
power of
Ancient Rome grew,
Latin absorbed elements of the other...
- The Via
Praenestina (modern Italian: Via Prenestina) was an
ancient Roman road in
central Italy.
Initially called Via Gabiana, from Gabii, the ancient...
- The
Praeneste fibula (the "brooch of Palestrina") is a
golden fibula or brooch,
today housed in the
Pigorini National Museum of
Prehistory and Ethnography...
-
profusion and beauty. Præneste was
situated on the Via Praenestina.
Praenestine graves from
about 240 BC
onwards have been found: they are surmounted...
- Collina. No
temple at Rome, however,
rivalled the
magnificence of the
Praenestine sanctuary. Fortuna's
identity as
personification of
chance events was...
- that the
Praenestines had
advanced into the
district of
Gabii deterred the tribunes.
Learning that Rome had no army in the field, the
Praenestine army pushed...
- "ancient Hope" (Spes vetus) was
supposed to have been
located near the
Praenestine Gate. It was ****ociated with
events that
occurred in the 5th century...
-
large numbers of
pottery items,
inscriptions and
engraved scenes on the
Praenestine cistae (ornate boxes; see
under Etruscan language) and on
specula (ornate...
-
grapes in
grape pulp and in pots
buried in the ground, as well as
fresh Praenestine nuts kept in the same way, and
Scantian quinces in jars, and
other fruits...
- and
eastern city
walls with four
siege towers, but is
repulsed at the
Praenestine Gate,
known as the Vivarium, by the
defenders under the
Byzantine generals...
