Latium

//ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm//

"Latium" in a Sentence (7 examples)

After Greece was conquered, he made a fierce victory and brought the arts to rural Latium.

Greece, once conquered, in turn conquered its uncivilized conqueror, and brought the arts to rustic Latium.

He also suffered many things in war, while he strove to found a city, and to bear his gods to Latium: from this place arose the Latin race, the Alban fathers, and the walls of exalted Rome.

Enraged by these things as well, she kept the Trojans, all that were left of the Greeks and indomitable Achilles, far away from Latium, tossed by the wide ocean; they wandered for many years, driven by the Fates, all around the seas.

Yea, and more, / in war enduring, ere he built a home, / and his loved household-deities brought o'er / to Latium, whence the Latin people come, / whence rose the Alban sires, and walls of lofty Rome.

So fired with rage, the Trojans' scanty train / by fierce Achilles and the Greeks unslain / she barred from Latium, and in evil strait / for many a year, on many a distant main / they wandered, homeless outcasts, tost by fate.

Latium was a region of ancient Italy.

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