Padus
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noun
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The little river Athesis, north of the Padus, flows into the Adriatic.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert Franklin Pennell
Padus her own ill child shall bury, Volusius' annals; In them a mackerel oft house him, a wrapper of ease.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
Its Roman appellation was Padus, which in course of time resolved itself into its present name, the Po.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
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
The Latin colonies between the Padus and the Rubicon would certainly have received Roman rights, and this may have been the case with a Latin township north of the Padus such as Aquileia.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
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