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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...
- 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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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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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claims that at one time the
league included Tusculum, Aricia, Lanuvium,
Lavinium, Cora, Tibur,
Pometia and Ardea.
During the
reign of
Tarquinius Superbus...
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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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about 60,000. The town was
built entirely new near the
location of
ancient Lavinium on land
resulting from the
final reclamation of the
Pontine Marshes under...
- 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...
