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MOENIUS

Volume 7 · 50 words · 1778 Edition

(Caius), a celebrated Roman consul, conqueror of the ancient Latins, 338 B.C. He was the first who hung up the prows, &c. of the galleys he had taken at the naval engagement of Actium, upon the place where the tribunes harangued the people; from whence it was called the rostra.