The corpus record — Latin

Ratumēna Porta

a gate at Rome

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What it meant

Ratumēna Porta — Lewis & Short

Ratumēna Porta (Ratumen-na).

I a gate at Rome, which, acc. to Festus, derived its name from an Etruscan youth, Paul. ex Fest. p. 275 Müll.; cf. Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 161; Sol. 45, 15 (in Plut. Public. 13, written *(ratoume/na).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.