Brundisium
Americannoun
noun
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Earlier research on the vessel's ballast pointed to Brundisium - today Brindisi - on the south-eastern coast of Italy as the place where the ship was built.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Leaving his province on the earliest opportunity, he reached Brundisium on the 24th of November, and found civil war inevitable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Latin he may have known as a boy, since the colony of Brundisium was founded B.C.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Very soon afterwards the consuls fled, in such a hurry that they left the State treasures behind them, and with most of the senators joined Pompeius at Brundisium, whence they intended to sail for Greece.
From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton
He again thinks of starting from Brundisium, and promises, when he has arrived there, instantly to begin a new work.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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