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See also:LANUVIUM (more frequently Lanivium in imperial times, mod. Civita Lavinia) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Latium, some 19 M. S.E. of See also:Rome, a little S.W. of the Via See also:Appia. It was situated on an isolated See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill projecting S. from the See also:main See also:mass of the See also:Alban Hills, and commanding an extensive view over the See also:low See also:country between it and the See also:sea. It was one of the members of the Latin See also:League, and remained See also:independent until conquered by Rome in 338 B.C. At first it did not enjoy the right of See also:Roman See also:citizen-See also:ship, but acquired it later; and even in imperial times its See also:chief See also:magistrate and municipal See also:council kept the titles of See also:dictator and senatus respectively. It was especially famous for its See also:rich and much venerated See also:temple of See also:Juno Sospes, from which Octavian borrowed See also:money in 31 B.C., and the possessionsof which extended as far as the sea-See also:coast (T. See also:Ashby in Melanges de l'ecole francaise, 1905, 203). It possessed many other temples, repaired by See also:Antoninus See also:Pius, who was See also:born See also:close by, as was also See also:Commodus. Remains of the ancient See also:theatre and of the city walls exist in the See also:modern See also:village, and above it is an See also:area surrounded by a See also:portico, in See also:opus reticulatum, upon the See also:north See also:side of which is a rectangular See also:building in opus quadratum, probably connected with the temple of Juno. Here archaic decorative terra-cottas were discovered in excavations carried on by See also:Lord See also:Savile. The See also:acropolis of the See also:primitive city was probably on the highest point above the temple to the north. The See also:neighbour-See also:hood, which is now covered with vineyards, contains remains of many Roman villas, one of which is traditionally attributed to Antoninus Pius.
See Notizie degli Scavi, passim. (T.
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