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  • All these things were transacted in an assembly of the commons in the Flaminian meadows, which they now call the Flaminian circus.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • And at the Flaminian, which is on the other side of the Pincian, he put Constantinus in command, having previously closed the gates and blocked them up most securely by building a wall of great stones on the inside, so that it might be impossible for anyone to open them.

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • Punic war, Caius Flaminnus was extremely desirous to obtain the support and good will of the populace; with this object in view, he joined the tribunes of the people in passing a law, which is called the Flaminian, or Claudian law.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784

  • One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna modern Terni, and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city.

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • A bubbling runnel by the side of one of those modern Appian or Flaminian highways is but like a kennel; the little hill is diminished to a hillock — the romantic hillock to a molehill, almost too small for sight.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • We are well acquainted with the prodigious works accomplished by the Romans, their immense excavations for lakes of water, or the beds of lakes formed by nature, filled up, hills levelled, and a passage bored through a mountain by Vespasian, in the Flaminian way, for more than a thousand feet in length, the inscription on which remains at present.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Thrace, those Appian and Flaminian ways, prodigious works all may witness; and rather than they should be [580] idle, as those [581] Egyptian Pharaohs, Maris, and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Then we crossed the swollen waters of the Tiber and turned north onto the Flaminian Way.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • We pressed on up the Flaminian Way, devoting a day to each of the decent-sized towns—Narnia, Carsulae, Mevania, Fulginiae, Nuceria, Tadinae, and Cales—before finally reaching the Adriatic coast about two weeks after leaving Rome.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Then we crossed the swollen waters of the Tiber and turned north onto the Flaminian Way.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

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