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  • Maximum, eum quī Tarentum recēpit, dīlēxī, _I loved Maximus, the man who retook Tarentum_.a. Closely akin to this usage is is in the sense of _such_ (= tālis); as, -- nōn sum is quī terrear, _I am not such a person as to be frightened_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • There was a pool here called Tarentum or Terentum, fed by hot sulphur springs, the efficiency of which is attested by the cure of Volesus, the Sabine, and his family, described by Valerius Maximus.

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • A subterranean altar in a spot by the Tiber, near the present Ponte St. Angelo, and called Tarentum

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • Our countrymen have long ago taken possession of that part of the Italian peninsula which is called Tarentum, and we have thereby become close neighbours of Rome.

    Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880

  • But then in the autumn of 37 BC, while Octavia was still receiving praise for her role in brokering peace between her husband and her brother at Tarentum, Antony headed back to the East for a reunion with Cleopatra.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • See Barrett 2002, 30 on the epithet being inspired by the occasion of Tarentum.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • In every town along the route—in Tarentum and in Venusia, across the mountains and down onto the plains of Campania, in Capua and in Minturnae—the crowds turned out to cheer him.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • To be precise, they dipped them in a large inlet of the sea known as the gulf of Tarentum modern Taranto.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The gulfs coastline, stretching roughly from Tarentum to Croton, includes some of the most fertile land in Italy.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • To be precise, they dipped them in a large inlet of the sea known as the gulf of Tarentum modern Taranto.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

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