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Surrounded by rampart walls, the Roman colony— Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum —flourished until Aug. 21, 79 A.D., when it was suddenly buried six-meters deep in rock and ashes by the eruption of Vesuvius.
The Gracious Art of Living Judy Fayard 2011
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Et amita Veneria properiter obiit, cui breuia melea modifica recino: cinis ita placidulus adoperiat eam locaque tacita celeripes Erebi adeat.
The Graves of a Household Ausonius 1912
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[1033] Sicca is the modern El Kef, but is still called by its inhabitants by its old name of Sicca Veneria (Schak Benar), The name
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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When they arrived at Lina, Veneria, and Cares, frontier towns of Numidia, where the Moors were to fetch them, two
Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages. 1789-1850 1851
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[35] Inter æstuaria Bætis oppidum Nebrissa, cognomine Veneria.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Nebrissa, near the mouth of the Bætis in Spain, called, by Pliny, Veneria;
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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These slaves may how - ever have been procured by Verres from Veneria, a city of Hispania Baetica, known also under the name of Lebrissa, and now. called Lebrixa.
The two last pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Kelsall, Charles, tr 1812
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In - flexio porro proprii nominis Veneria, cujus rectam lectionem per 3 ex alio - rum exemplarium collatione statim post eclitam Disquisit. nostram agnovimus, et tom.
Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795
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_Veneria_ was derived from a temple of the Punic Aphrodite (cf. Val.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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