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CONCORDIA

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a town of Italy, in the duchy of Mirandola; situated on the river Sechia, 5 miles west of Mirandola, and 15 miles south-east of Mantua; subject to the house of Austria. E. Long. 11. 13. N. Lat. 44. 52.

in Ancient Geography, a town of the Veneti, situated at the confluence of the rivers Rotatinus Major and Minor, 31 miles to the west of Aquileia, (Pliny, Ptolemy, Antonine;) a colony named Julia. Its ruins still go by the name of Concordia.—Another Concordia (Ptolemy), of Lufitania, to the north-west of Trajan's bridge, on the Tagus.—A third of the Nemetes in Belgica, on the west side of the Rhine; a Roman fortress, situated between Brocomagus and Noviomagus. Now Drufenheim, in Alsace. E. Long. 8. N. Lat. 48. 40.

a Pagan divinity of the Romans. She Concordia had a temple on the declivity of the Capitol; another in the Portico of Livia; and a third on Mount Palatine, built of bricks by Cn. Flavius, on account of a vow made for reconciling the senate and people. She was pictured with a cup in her right hand; in her left was sometimes a sceptre, and sometimes a cornucopia. Her symbols were two hands joined, as is seen in a coin of Aurelius Venus, and another of Nero; also two serpents twisting about a caduceus. She was addressed to promote the peace and union of families and citizens.