Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Ancient Greek: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22...

The Praeneste fibula (the "brooch of Palestrina") is a golden fibula or brooch, today housed in the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography...

Marius survived the Battle of Sacriportus and retreated with 7,000 men to Praeneste. The first to arrive were lucky and could enter through the gates, but...

the siege of Praeneste and rescue consul Gaius Marius, who was considered the heart of the anti-Sullan cause. Breaking the siege of Praeneste turned out...

in Rome during his lifetime (CIL VI, 10048 = ILS 5287) and another in Praeneste after his retirement there (CIL XIV, 288) are the sole records of his...

whom), Crustumerium was captured (again it is not clear by whom), and Praeneste defected to the Romans. Aulus Postumius was appointed dictator, with Titus...

Athens, and finally the villa of triumvir Pompey in the Alban Hills, near Praeneste, Italy. Ptolemy XII spent roughly up to a year there on the outskirts...

received a new name having been extended as far as Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Once past Praeneste the road continued towards the Apennines and the source...

that era. Occasionally, Latin has been written in other scripts: The Praeneste fibula is a 7th-century BC pin with an Old Latin inscription written using...

Cuno of Praeneste (died 9 August 1122) was a German Cardinal and papal legate, an influential diplomatic figure of the early 12th century, active in France...

1089–1099 (pseudocardinal) Milone 1095/98–1104 vacant 1104–1107 Cuno of Praeneste 1107–1122 Guillaume Praenestinus 1123–1137 Johannes 1130–1134 (pseudocardinal)...

to relieve Praeneste but an uprising from the Samnites and the Lucanians forced Sulla to deploy south as they moved also to relieve Praeneste or join with...

remained hunting and hounds. The largest structure in the gardens is the Praeneste. Based on the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Palestrina, Italy, the Roman-style...

into the city, made to look natural. At the great Roman sanctuary of Praeneste south of Rome, the oldest portion of the primitive sanctuary was situated...

two thousand were captured and executed. They next made an attempt on Praeneste but were again defeated, resulting in the execution of another five hundred...

The Old Latin inscription on the Praeneste fibula. The writing runs from right to left, unlike later Latin writing....

Losna presiding over the contest between Pollux and Amycus on an Etruscan mirror from Praeneste, ca. 310 BC...

The Praeneste fibula is believed to bear the oldest known Latin inscription. The inscription means "Manius made me for Numerius"....

less absorbed by the State, including those at Pergamum, Alexandria, Praeneste and Capua. The city of Rome itself had four; the Ludus Magnus (the largest...

Orcius. Most of the Orcivii found in inscriptions are concentrated at Praeneste in Latium, at Rome and Ostia, and in the provinces of Venetia and Histria...

Sant'Omobono: the cults are indeed archaic in date. Fortuna Primigenia of Praeneste was adopted by Romans at the end of 3rd century BC in an important cult...

Nemi and Albanus, are visible under the "I". The leading Latin city-states of Rome, Tibur (Tivoli), Praeneste (Palestrina), Ardea and Gabii are shown....

naval bireme depicted in a relief from the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste, c. 120 BC; now in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums...

legends he is the father of famous characters, such as the founder of Praeneste Caeculus, Cacus, a primordial being or king, later transformed into a...

temple within the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, a religious complex in Praeneste (now Palestrina, 35 km (22 mi) east of Rome). It was founded in 204 BC...

bireme depicted in a relief from the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste (Palastrina), which was built c. 120 BC; exhibited in the Pius-Clementine...

of Hercle (Heracles) and Pherse (Perseus). On a bronze mirror found at Praeneste, she attends Perseus, who consults two Graeae, and, on another, holds...

another large force under Censorinus, which was trying to get through to Praeneste where Carbo's consular colleague, Marius the Younger (who was the figurehead...

into the fire to prove his loyalty to Rome. Caeculus and the founding of Praeneste. Manlius and the geese, about divine intervention at the Gallic siege...

from caecus "blind") was a son of Vulcan, and the legendary founder of Praeneste (modern Palestrina). King Caeculus appears in Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid...