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Palestrina (ancient
Praeneste;
Ancient Gr****: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a
modern Italian city and
comune (muni****lity) with a po****tion of
about 22...
- The
Praeneste fibula (the "brooch of Palestrina") is a
golden fibula or brooch,
today housed in the
Pigorini National Museum of
Prehistory and Ethnography...
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Marius survived the
Battle of
Sacriportus and
retreated with 7,000 men to
Praeneste. The
first to
arrive were
lucky and
could enter through the gates, but...
- the
siege of
Praeneste and
rescue consul Gaius Marius, who was
considered the
heart of the anti-Sullan cause.
Breaking the
siege of
Praeneste turned out...
- in Rome
during his
lifetime (CIL VI, 10048 = ILS 5287) and
another in
Praeneste after his
retirement there (CIL XIV, 288) are the sole
records of his...
- whom),
Crustumerium was
captured (again it is not
clear by whom), and
Praeneste defected to the Romans.
Aulus Postumius was
appointed dictator, with Titus...
-
received a new name
having been
extended as far as
Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Once past
Praeneste the road
continued towards the
Apennines and the source...
- Cuno of
Praeneste (died 9
August 1122) was a
German Cardinal and
papal legate, an
influential diplomatic figure of the
early 12th century,
active in France...
- Athens, and
finally the
villa of
triumvir Pompey in the
Alban Hills, near
Praeneste, Italy.
Ptolemy XII
spent roughly up to a year
there on the outskirts...
- that era. Occasionally,
Latin has been
written in
other scripts: The
Praeneste fibula is a 7th-century BC pin with an Old
Latin inscription written using...
