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ALGIDUM

Volume 1 · 51 words · 1815 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. ode 21. "Quae cinque ant gelido prominet Algido," and lib. iii. ode 23. "Quae nivoli pascitur Algido," &c.