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Brundisium

American  
[bruhn-diz-ee-uhm, -dizh-ee-] / brʌnˈdɪz i əm, -ˈdɪʒ i- /

noun

  1. ancient name of Brindisi.


Brundisium British  
/ brʌnˈdɪzɪəm /

noun

  1. the ancient name for Brindisi

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Continuing his voyage without interruption, he became worse, and on the 21st of September, a few days after landing at Brundisium, he died in the fifty-first year of his age.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Pompey had crossed the sea from Brundisium, and Cæsar had retreated across Italy to Capua.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

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 Trollope, Anthony

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

His disquiet entered the ship at Brundisium, and sailed across the sea with him.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk