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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 39 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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REGILLUS , an See also:

ancient See also:

lake of See also:

LATIUM

Latium, See also:

Italy, famous in the legendary See also:

HISTORY

history of See also:

Rome as the lake in the neighbourhood of which occurred (496 B.c.) the See also:

BATTLE

battle which finally decided the See also:

HEGEMONY (Gr. i7ye,uovia, leadership, from it-yo-Oat, to lead, the leadership especially of one particular state in a group of federated or loosely united states. The term was first applied in Greek history to the position claimed by different individual

hegemony of Rome in Latium. During the battle, so runs the See also:

story, the See also:

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator Postumius vowed a See also:

temple to See also:

CASTOR

Castor and See also:

Pollux, who were specially venerated in See also:

TUSCULUM

Tusculum, the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

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

city of the Latins (it being a See also:

ROMAN

Roman usage to invoke the aid of the gods of the enemy), who appeared during the battle, and brought the See also:

NEWS

news of the victory to Rome, watering their horses at the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of See also:

JUTURNA (alder form Diuturna, the lasting)

Juturna, See also:

close to which their temple in the See also:

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

Forum was erected. There can be little doubt that the lake actually existed. Of the various identifications proposed, the best is that of Nibby, who finds it in a now dry See also:

CRATER

crater lake (Pantano Secco), drained by an emissarium, the date of which is uncertain, some 2 M. N. of See also:

FRASCATI

Frascati. Along the See also:

south See also:

BANK

bank of the lake, at some 30 or 40 ft. above the See also:

PRESENT

present bottom, ran the aqueducts of the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus. Most of the other sites proposed are not, as Regillus should be, within the limits of the territory of Tusculum. See T. See also:

ASHBY, TURNER (1824-1862)

Ashby in Rendiconti dei Lincei (1898), 103 sqq., and Classical See also:

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, 1898. (T.

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