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I speak the word Capitolium, I seem to hear the thunder of the legions, to see the very face of Caesar, to understand the dominion and majesty of Rome.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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There is one interesting feature of the Capitolium, which is not well known among those who do not make a profession of archæology.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Then the hill was renamed by them "Capitolium": for _capita_ in the Roman speech means "the head."
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Lane '; and, in the vulgar tongue,' Capitolium 'was vulgarized to
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881
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He said that robbing the Temple of the menorah would be like an enemy stealing the statue of the she-wolf from the Capitolium, an unimaginable desecration that would tear out the heart of Rome itself.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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He said that robbing the Temple of the menorah would be like an enemy stealing the statue of the she-wolf from the Capitolium, an unimaginable desecration that would tear out the heart of Rome itself.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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At one end of the forum were the Curia, Capitolium, and a Temple of Serapis.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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Capitolium towards the Campus Martius, originally so called as being between the two heads of the mountain.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All the male population were killed, and the women and children transferred to Rome; and with the spoils the Capitolium was completed.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Why did you not carry him back to the little Christchild on the Capitolium from whom he proceeded?
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