Latium
Speech parts
1. Latium - Noun
2. Latium - Proper noun
Meaning
an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea
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Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.
After the death of Pope Silvester II in 1003, the papacy fell under the influence of the nobility in Latium, and then after 1046, under the influence of the German emperors.
Cuma too had a cult of a chthonic Hecate and certainly had strict contacts with Latium.
New York: Vintage Books (1990). 407. Finally, when Aeneas arrives in Latium, conflict inevitably arises.
In Roman legend Aeneas vowed all of that year's wine of Latium to Jupiter before the battle with Mezentius : cf. G. Dumézil ARR above p. 173 ; Ovid Fasti IV 863 ff.
Moreover, it would seem that there is a sizable presence of Daunians in Latium and Campania (Liternum, Nola).