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Lanuvium

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Lanuvium

Ancient city of Latium, 30 km/19 mi southeast of Rome. Its inhabitants were granted Roman citizenship 338 BC, but its chief magistrate and council continued to be called dictator and senatus respectively, even in imperial times.

Lanuvium stood on a hill and had a temple of the goddess Juno Sospita (‘the deliverer’). It was the birthplace of Publius Clodius's great enemy Milo and of the emperor Antoninus Pius.



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