Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls
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Examples
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Aurelian was so impressed with her beauty, dignity, intelligence and general queenly bearing, however, that he pardoned her quickly and gave her a villa in Tibur (now Tivoli) where she lived in luxury, becoming a respected socialite, prominent philosopher and wife of a Roman governor and senator - and bearing the ancestors of many prominent Roman citizens.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Aurelian was so impressed with her beauty, dignity, intelligence and general queenly bearing, however, that he pardoned her quickly and gave her a villa in Tibur (now Tivoli) where she lived in luxury, becoming a respected socialite, prominent philosopher and wife of a Roman governor and senator - and bearing the ancestors of many prominent Roman citizens.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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States such as Tibur and Praeneste, defeated in the Latin War, retained autonomous governments by the treaty of 338.
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Of the citizens of the thirty-three Tribes into which the Roman territory was now divided, and which extended north of the Tiber a little beyond Veii, and southward as far as the Liris; though even in this district there were some towns, such as Tibur and Prænesté, which did not possess the
A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853
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There sit Ventidius and seven legions before a town the size of Aricia or Tibur!
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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There sit Ventidius and seven legions before a town the size of Aricia or Tibur!
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Thou surely art at Tibur; and who quarrel will
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Thou surely art at Tibur; and who quarrel will
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Out of the opening, as though my words had summoned them, rode the Witch-woman with Tibur beside her, and at their heels the little troop who had watched me from Nansur Bridge.
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Tibur regrets he did not kill you when you came up from the river — urges that no more time be lost in doing so.
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