Padus
Americannoun
noun
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Earl Markja, and old Grippa, whose release Totila had procured by exchanging them for the prisoners taken at the battle of the Padus.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
Let our own Padus send his home-born navy to the sea, his river-nurtured firs to battle with the winds of Ocean.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
P. serotina and its variety pendula, and the other members of the Padus group, are not important.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
In process of time they were enabled to make settlements in other parts, particularly in Epirus and Illyria: and to occupy some considerable provinces in Italy as high up as the Padus.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant
And accordingly, having settled affairs in Gaul, he again spent the winter in the plain of the Padus, and employed himself in intriguing at Rome.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
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