Tibur
Americannoun
noun
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“To love Rome at Tibur and Tibur at Rome” was the expression of the educated Roman’s feelings in a form which he would have recognised to be as just as it was happy.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
It is noticeable that there were two gilds or collegia of them belonging to the Palatine and Quirinal cities respectively; and they are also found at Tibur, Alba, Lanuvium, and other Latin cities.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Therefore farewell, far seen, ye peaks of the mythic Albano, Seen from Montorio's height, Tibur and �sula's hills!
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
—Then, again, describing the character of Tibur or Tivoli, he does not say the Anio; but “aquæ,” as in the other instance “Lympha.”
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
From Tibur he moved to Praeneste, and by cross roads to the Latin way.
From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Hamilton, Mary Agnes
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