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PATAVIUM

Volume 14 · 61 words · 1797 Edition

(Tacitus, Strabo), a town of the Transpadana, situated on the left or north bank of the Medoacus Minor; founded by Antenor the Trojan, (Mela, Virgil, Seneca); Patavini, the people, (Livy); who himself was a native, and by Afinius Pollio charged with patavinity. Now Padua, in the territory and to the west of Venice. E. Long. 12. 15. N. Lat. 45. 30.