Trasimene
Britishnoun
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He awaited the consul Flaminius by the Lake Trasimene, where the hills, retiring in a semicircle from the shore, inclose a plain entered by two narrow passes.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
C. Flaminius, tribune, censor, killed at Trasimene Lake, 81; defies the Senate, 106; and the reform of the Centuries, 109.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Hannibal defeats the Romans at the Trasimene Lake.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Fresh outbreak of religio after battle of Trasimene; lectisternium of 216, without distinction of Greek and Roman deities; importance of this.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
With an effort she rallied, her arms again tightened in their clasp, and we sped down the long slope which led to Trasimene, Castor stretching himself like a greyhound.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
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