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Ăquīnum , i, n.,
I.a town in Latium, not far from Casinum, now Aquino, the birthplace of the poet Juvenal, Cic. Phil. 2, 41; id. Fam. 16, 24; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 63; Juv. 3, 319; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 674.—Hence, Ăquī-nas , ātis, adj., belonging to Aquinum: “colonia,” Tac. H. 2, 63: “nescit Aquinatem potantia vellera fucum,” i.e. the purple color manufactured at Aquinum, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 27.—Ăquīnātes , ium, m.
I. The inhabitants of Aquinum, Cic. Clu. 68; Inscr. Orell. 133; 3851.—
II. A community in the Saltus Gallianus in Gallia Cispadana, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 116.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.24
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 68
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.41
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.63
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.63
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