Definition of Rostra. Meaning of Rostra. Synonyms of Rostra

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Definition of Rostra

Rostra
Rostra Ros"tra, n. pl. See Rostrum, 2.

Meaning of Rostra from wikipedia

- 5″N 12°29′04.6″E / 41.892639°N 12.484611°E / 41.892639; 12.484611 The Rostra (Italian: Rostri) was a large platform built in the city of Rome that stood...
- platform in the Comitium near the Roman Forum, located to the west of the Rostra. Placed at the southwest end of the Comitium, the platform was the designated...
- platform known as the New Rostra and the public burning of Caesar's body occurred on a site directly across from the Rostra around which the Temple to...
- or rostra (known as the Rostra ad divi Iuli to distinguish it from the rostra augusti at the opposite end of the Forum). Like the older rostra it was...
- Tiberius and his son Drusus delivered the eulogy while standing atop two rostra. Augustus's body was coffin-bound and cremated on a pyre close to his mausoleum...
- the Curia Julia) Rostra Vetera (Old Rostra), main speaker's platform until it was replaced by the nearby Rostra Augusta (New Rostra) Graecostasis, platform...
- adorned the Rostra, with the naval rams (rostra in Latin) of six ships from the Antiate fleet confiscated by Rome. The column was beside the Rostra and the...
- The Rohrbach Ro XI Rostra was a flying boat built in Germany in 1928 for use as a transatlantic mail plane. The Ro XI shared the same general configuration...
- (known as the Volcanal) where a series of monuments was found opposite the Rostra. This curia was enlarged in 80 BC by Lucius Cornelius Sulla during his renovations...
- as a writer and as an orator, respectively) were then displa**** on the Rostra. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating...