Brundisium
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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
Proscribed by the Triumvirs, and put to death in 43 B.C. 11-12 a Brundisinis . . . ornatus = having received attentions from the most respectable men of Brundisium.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
Before their arrival Octavian raised a force among Caesar’s veterans in Campania, and on the march from Brundisium to Rome two of the four Macedonian legions deserted to him.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Horace’s journey to Brundisium in the train of Maecenas and Cocceius, who went to arrange some matters between Augustus and Antony.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Then the great catastrophe had come, when Cicero returned from that wretched campaign to Brundisium, and remained there in despair as at some penal settlement.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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