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First Coriolanus came to Circeii, that is hard by the sea, and drave out thence the Roman colonists, and gave over the city to the Romans.
Stories From Livy Alfred John Church 1870
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I require you to sail aboard my ship with me, but you will be put off at Circeii, where you have a villa.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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I require you to sail aboard my ship with me, but you will be put off at Circeii, where you have a villa.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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He had also a design of diverting the Tiber, and carrying it by a deep channel directly from Rome to Circeii, and so into the sea near Tarracina, that there might be a safe and easy passage for all merchants who traded to Rome.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Besides the Volscians, assigned by some fatality to give eternal employment to the Roman soldiery, and the colonies of Circeii and Velitræ, long meditating a revolt, and Latium which had been suspected, new enemies suddenly sprung up in the people of Lanuvium, which had been a most faithful city.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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Circeii, he expelled from thence the Roman colonists, and delivered that city in a state of freedom to the Volscians.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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The people having been employed in these works, because he both considered that such a multitude was a burden to the city when there was no employment for them, and further, he was anxious that the frontiers of the empire should be more extensively occupied by sending colonists, he sent colonists to Signia and Circeii, to serve as defensive barriers hereafter to the city by land and sea.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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The town of Circeii, which Macaulay associates here with Circe, the enchantress.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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Annius, a native of Setia, and Lucius Numisius of Circeii, both from the
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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About the same time the Latins and Hernicians, as also the colonists of Circeii and Velitræ, when striving to clear themselves of the charge [of being concerned] in the Volscian war, and demanding back the prisoners, that they may punish them according to their own laws, received a harsh answer; the colonists the severer, because being Roman citizens they had formed the abominable design of attacking their own country.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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