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"Where the little river Liris runs into the Gulf of Gaeta, seventy miles south of Rome, may be placed the natural boundary between central and southern Italy."
And Two Centuries Later, the Money-Grubbing Materialists Are Still About Destroying the Planet 2009
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"Where the little river Liris runs into the Gulf of Gaeta, seventy miles south of Rome, may be placed the natural boundary between central and southern Italy."
A Review of Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, by David Randall-MacIver 2009
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"Where the little river Liris runs into the Gulf of Gaeta, seventy miles south of Rome, may be placed the natural boundary between central and southern Italy."
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931) 2008
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Yes! it is harder than common, Horace, for us to think of you, still glad somewhere, among rivers like Liris and plains and vine-clad hills, that
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He inherited all that magnificent property the Lucilii used to own on the Gulf of Tarentum, and he came back from Africa in time to pick up some very nice river frontage on the Tiber, the Volturnus, the Liris and the Aternus.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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He came down the watershed of the Liris, skirted Sora, and met Lucius Caesar between Atina and Casinum.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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It proved easy to do so, for a well-used track outlined the contour of the bay through the salt marshes which festered around the mouth of the Liris River; the troopers actually gained ground on the lighter rapidly, only losing sight of it when it disappeared into the rushes and reeds growing on the Liris mud flats.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Italian dissatisfaction hovered darkly in the background that December, its nucleus the warlike tribes of the central highlands behind the Tiber and Liris valleys, led by the Marsi and the Samnites.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Huddled in the foothills of the high Apennines, a fruitful valley cupping both the Liris and the Melfa rivers, where the grape grew with wonderful results for table as well as vintage, where the crops returned a hundred-and-fifty-fold, and the sheep were fat and the wool surprisingly fine.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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[18] Pompey fled to _Capua_, passing the marshes of _Minturnae_ at the mouth of the _Liris_ (now the Garigliano), and from thence over the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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