Praeneste
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Italy's Ministry of Culture has designated the area as an archaeological park, now managed as part of the Musei e Parchi Archeologici di Praeneste e Gabii.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025
Praeneste, often mentioned by the classical writers, was an ancient religious center 23 miles east of Rome in the Sabine hills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tibullus was a Roman eques, and was probably born at Pedum, a Latin town just at the foot of the Apennines, and a few miles north of Praeneste, where his father possessed an ample estate.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
We shall skirt round the foot of the hills, cross the Lyris below Praeneste, and then make straight to the mountains.
From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The whole territory of Praeneste and Norba in Latium, and Spoletium in Umbria was confiscated.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
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