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Liternum

Liternum · n

a city of Campania, situated to the north of the mouth of the river Liternus

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Ab urbe condita 11 · 0.21/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Līternum — Lewis & Short

Līternum (Lint-), i, n.,

I a city of Campania, situated to the north of the mouth of the river Liternus, now the village of Patria, Mel. 2, 4, 9; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Liv. 22, 16; Ov. M. 15, 714; Sil. 6, 654; 8, 533.— Hence,

A Līternus, a, um, adj., Literman: Liternus ager, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66: palus, Sil. 6, 654.—Absol.: Līternum (sc. praedium), i, n., an estate of Scipio Africanus, near Liternum, Liv. 38, 53; Sen. Ep. 86.—

B Līternīnus, a, um, adj., Liternian: rus, Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 49.—Absol.: Lī-ternīnum (sc. praedium), an estate of Scipio Africanus, near Liternum, Liv. 38, 52.

In the wild

Literni Silius Italicus, Punica 6.654
Liternum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.26.p2
Literna Silius Italicus, Punica 7.278
Literni Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.38.7
Liternum Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.714
Liternique Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.29.3

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