rosaria
- plural of rosarium.
Example Sentences
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At this period, there can be no doubt, the surrounding plain was in the highest state of cultivation, whilst its prolific rose-gardens—biferi rosaria Paesti—have supplied the theme of every Roman poet from Vergil to Ausonius.
From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)
The ancients celebrated, in the month of May, a feast called rosaria, in which sepulchres were profusely decorated49 with the favorite flower of the season.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
The rosaria outlived the suppression of pagan superstitions, and by and by assumed its Christian form in the feast of Pentecost, which falls in the month of May.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
I suppose no one who has read his Virgil at school, crosses the plain from Salerno to Pæstum without those words of the 'Georgics' ringing in his ears: biferique rosaria Pæsti.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
