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Venusia

Venusia · f

a town on the borders of Apulia and Lucania

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 10 · 5.75/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 5 · 2.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Ab urbe condita 16 · 0.31/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Vĕnŭsĭa — Lewis & Short

Vĕnŭsĭa, ae, f.,

I a town on the borders of Apulia and Lucania, the birthplace of the poet Horace, now Venosa, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 104; Cic. Att. 5, 5, 1; 16, 5, 3; Liv. 22, 49; 22, 54; Vell. 1, 14, 6.—Hence, Vĕnŭsīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Venusia, Venusian: silvae, Hor. C. 1, 28, 26: colonus, i. e. Horace, id. S. 2, 1, 35: lucerna, i. e. the poetry of Horace, Juv. 1, 51.—Subst.: Vĕ-nŭsīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Venusia, the Venusians, Liv. 22, 54; 27, 10.

In the wild

Venusia Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p548
Venusiam Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p2
Venusiam Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p61
Venusia Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.42.14
Uenusiam Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p54
Uenusiae Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 p5

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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