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The channeled water originally entered at the great Oval Fountain, where a statue of the Tiburtine Sibyl and twin flanking river gods represent the three local waterways—the Aniene, Albuneo and Erculaneo.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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Romanists see in the fresco the city's hills and the Tiburtine island, Ostians the wall with the sea beyond, and Neapolitans the theater and statue of Apollo.
Ancient Cityscape 1998
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[For he is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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It consists of a round tower formed of immense blocks of Tiburtine stone, fixed together without cement, and adorned with a Doric marble frieze, on which are sculptured rams 'heads festooned with garlands of flowers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832 Various
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Though the Gauls had come back from Campania to their assistance, it was undoubtedly by the Tiburtine generals that the cruel depredations in the territories of Labici, Tusculum, and Alba were carried out.
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Rome, which commands the Nomentane and Tiburtine ways to the south, and the railway and Via Salara to the west.
The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891
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For this reason the figures of Augustus and of the Tiburtine sibyl are painted on either side of the arch above the high altar.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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With head slightly inclined he seemed to study, now the ribbons woven in his horse's mane, now the small, sensitive ears that pricked backward and forward, as the Tiburtine Way flowed sluggishly beneath.
The Lion's Brood Duffield Osborne 1887
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Erythrean, the Samian, the Cumæan, the Hellespontine, the Phrygian and the Tiburtine.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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How long before his horsemen came riding along the Tiburtine Way?
Veranilda George Gissing 1880
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