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Latia'lis

or LATIA'RIS, a surname of Jupiter as the protecting divinity of Latium. The Latin towns and Rome celebrated to him every year the feriae Latinae, on the Alban mount, which were proclaimed and conducted by one of the Roman consuls. (Liv. 21.63, 22.1; Dionys. A. R. 4.49; Serv. ad Aen. 12.135; Suet. Calig. 22 ; comp. LATINUS.)

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