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ALGIDUM

Volume 1 · 50 words · 1810 Edition

a town of Latium, in Italy, between Preneste and Alba, near the mountains. On the top of one of these mountains was erected a temple of Diana, to which Horace refers, lib. i. od. 21. "Quaecunque aut gelido prominet Algido," and lib. iii. od. 23. "Quae nivei paefitur Algide, &c."