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It is probable that the prison called Tullianum, from a jet of water, "tullus," which sprang from the rock, was originally a portion of this quarry.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885
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Albert_ (1743) extracts relating to this custom, which is also referred to by the Roman writers C. Valerius, C.tullus, Vossius, and
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Tullianum, from the old word for a spring (_tullus_), the scene of the deaths of Jugurtha and many noble captives, and of the Catilinarian conspirators on December 5, 63.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Quod si Callima - chus auctor coaevns, et qui tnm Ale - xaudriae degebat, sed cujus poemation Graecum interiit, ejusque tnterpres Ca - tullus eam dixere sororem, id forte in - tellectum eo sensu, quod secundum Ae - gyptiornm institntum sorores plerumque in fratrum coanubia cencessere.
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The like choice is to be made in Poets, as Ca - tullus, Horace, Ovid s Seneca, Mtrtial,
Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677
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57 C.tullus went to Bithynia on the staff of the propraetor C. Memmius (cc. 10 and 28).
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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