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ARIMINUM (mod. Rimini)

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ARIMINUM (mod. Rimini)

ARIMINUM (mod. See also:
RIMINI
Rimini) , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Aemilia, on the N.E. See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

Italy, 69 m. S.E. of See also:

BONONIA (mod. Bologna)

Bononia. It was founded by the Umbrians, but in 268 B.C. became a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony with Latin rights. It was reached from See also:

Rome by the Via See also:

FLAMINIA, VIA

Flaminia, constructed in 220 B.C., and from that See also:

time onwards was the See also:

BULWARK (a word probably of Scandinavian origin, from bol or bole, a tree-trunk, and werk, work, in Ger. Bollwerk, which has also been derived from an old German bolen, to throw, and so a machine for throwing missiles)

bulwark of the Roman See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in Cisalpine See also:

Gaul, to which See also:

province it even gave its name. Its See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour was of some importance, but is now silted up, the See also:

sea having receded. The remains of its moles were destroyed in 1807–1809. Ariminum became a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of considerable See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic owing to the construction of the Via Aemilia (187 B.C.) and the Via See also:

POPILIA (or POPILLIA), VIA

Popilia (132 B.C.), and is frequently mentioned by See also:

ancient authors. In 90 B.C. it acquired Roman See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen-See also:

SHIP

ship, but in 82 B.C. having been held by the partisans of See also:

MARIUS, GAIUS (r55–86 B.c.)

Marius, it was plundered by those of See also:

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla (who probably made the See also:

RUBICON

Rubicon the frontier of Italy instead of the Aesis), and a military colony settled there. See also:

Caesar occupied it in 49 B.C. after his See also:

CROSSING

crossing of the Rubicon. It was one of the eighteen richest cities of Italy which the triumviri selected as a See also:

REWARD

reward for their troops. In 27 B.C.

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AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus planted new colonists there, and divided the city into seven vici after the See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of Rome, from which the names of the vici were borrowed. He also restored the Via Flaminia (Mon. Ancyr. c. 20) from Rome to Ariminum. At the entrance to the latter the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate erected, in his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, a triumphal See also:

arch which is still extant—a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

SIMPLE

simple See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument with a single opening. At the other end of the decumanus See also:

maximus or See also:

main See also:

street (3000 Roman ft. in length) is a fine See also:

BRIDGE

bridge over the Ariminus (mod. Marecchia) begun by Augustus and completed by Tiberius in A.D. 20. It has five wide See also:

ARCHES, COURT OF

arches, the central one having a span of 35 ft., and is well preserved. Both it and the arch are built of Istrian See also:

stone. The See also:

PRESENT

present Piazza Giulio Cesare marks the site of the ancient See also:

FORUM (Lat. from foris, " out of doors ")

forum. The remains of the See also:

AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre are scanty; many of its stones have gone to build the city See also:

wall, which must, therefore, at the earliest belong to the end of the classical See also:

In. A.D. i Augustus's See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson See also:

GAIUS

Gaius Caesar had all the streets of Ariminum paved. In A.D. 69 the See also:

TOWN

town was attacked by the partisans of See also:

VESPASIAN

Vespasian, and was frequently besieged in the See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

WARS

wars. It was one of the five seaports which remained See also:

BYZANTINE

Byzantine until the time of See also:

PIPPIN, or PEPIN

Pippin. (See RIMINI.) See A. Tonini, Storia della See also:

CILIA (plural of Lat. cilium, eyelash)

Cilia di Rimini (Rimini, 1848-1862). (T.

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