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Latin Festival (Feriae Latinae) - a festival held annually at Rome
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257/10 Q.Ogulnius is appointed dictator to hold the Latin festival.
212/4 The consuls celebrate the Latin Festival.
179/1 Bad weather disrupts the Latin Festival.
176/1 consul Scipio dies at the end of the Latin Festival.
176/4a The Latin Festival is repeated.
171/4 The Latin Festival is celebrated earlier than usual.
168/4 for Macedonia, after celebrating the Latin Festival.
91/10 murder the consuls at the Latin Festival, but their plot is discov
56/47 senators refuse to participate in the Latin Festival.
47/59 Octavianus appears in the forum during the Latin Festival.
Within translations:
Cic:Planc_23 of the victims at the Latin Festival. ** Let us add,
NicDam_127.13 [13] During the Latin festival when the consuls had to
Obseq_70 as one globe. At the Latin festival on the Alban Mount
[Vict]:VirIll_8 Sextus; and established the first Latin Festival. He held games in

Latin ² Language - the language of the Romans
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204/34 Poetry starts to be composed in Latin.
91/39 L.Lucullus receives a thorough education in Greek and Latin.
87/48 on the character of Catulus, and the purity of his Latin diction.
Within translations:
Apul:Flor_9 equal fluency in Greek and Latin, with equal pleasure, like ardour
Apul:Flor_26 rest of my material in Latin. For I remember that at
Athen_2.51 who gave the fruit the Latin name of Cerasus, cherry,
ChronPasc_457 was called Caesar, which in Latin means "cut out". When
Cic:Acad_1.3 you, and of expounding in Latin literary form the famous old
Cic:Acad_1.9 our poets and generally on Latin literature and the Latin language,
Cic:Acad_1.12 exponent of philosophy in a Latin dress that one could not
Cic:Acad_1.18 school when set forth in Latin and as you are setting
Cic:Acad_1.25 employ even Greek words if Latin ones happen to fail you."
Cic:Arch_23 the poet who writes in Latin, he is entirely in the
Cic:Brut_71 had only an Odyssey in Latin, which resembled one of the
Cic:Brut_253 on the Art of Speaking Latin; that he, who, in the first
Cic:Brut_310 intance; pretty often in Latin, but much oftener in Greek;
Cic:Caecin_56 I mention not speaking good Latin ? On the contrary, their
Cic:Deiot_25 as one we have in Latin :
Cic:DeOr_3.49 effect by speaking good Latin, adopting words in common
Cic:DeOr_3.52 that of speaking in pure Latin, and with clarity, were easy
Cic:DeOr_3.95 and treated with elegance, in Latin; for both our language and
Cic:DivCaec_39 instead of at Lilybaeum, and Latin at Rome instead of in
Cic:Phil_13.43 exist at all in the Latin language, ** you in your
Cic:Top_30 For even if it were Latin to
Cic:Tusc_1.1 to illustrate them in the Latin tongue: not because philosophy could
Cic:Tusc_1.6 already many books in the Latin language which are said to
Cic:Tusc_1.15 you if I can in Latin, for you know I am
Cic:Tusc_2.5 then derive its birth in Latin language from this time, and
Cic:Tusc_2.26 from the Greek, that the Latin language may not want any
Cic:Tusc_3.10 much better expressed by the Latin words than the Greek; which
Cic:Tusc_3.20 where the Latin is invidit florem It may
Cic:Tusc_4.6 there are few or no Latin records; whether this proceeds from
Cic:Tusc_5.116 Greek, nor the Greeks Latin: now, they are deaf
Cic:Verr_2.5.112 of those folk have such Latin names as this - a
Ennius:Ann_25 - which the old and ancient Latin folk did hold. [26]
Ennius:Ann_148 ήγια, in Latin textrina. Ennius -
Ennius:Ann_174 the first place, Latin is a tongue in which Apollo never
Ennius:Ann_543 used both languages [Greek and Latin] . . . On that accoun
Euseb]:Chron_285 the colour of the sow; for the Latin word for 'white' is
FastCap_p54 ianus - in order [to hold] the Latin festival [256] & L.
FastTr_explanation nation, preceded by the Latin preposition "de", which is
Hieron:Chron_1936 ius Plotus, a teacher of Latin rhetoric who was the freedm
Hieron:Chron_2004 teacher of rhetoric, taught in Latin at Rome. 192nd OLYMPI
Hieron:Chron_2013 Ar.] M.Porcius Latro, a Latin declaimer, committed suicid
Hieron:Chron_king aul was the first man to teach Latin rhetoric at Rome. Cic
Joseph:AJ_14.191 brass, both in Greek and in Latin. It is as follows:
Just_Preface the whole world, in the Latin tongue, in order that, as
Lucian:Luc_44 addressed us at first in Latin and asked the nurseryman where
Nepos:Att_4 uch agreeableness in his Latin style, as to make it eviden
Plin:HN_7.76 cases 'perverts,' but in the Latin country there is no name
Plinius:Ep_2.13 make you think the Muses speak Latin. I have the greatest
Plinius:Ep_2.14 have also been given the Latin name of Laudiceni - from
Plinius:Ep_3.1 composes, both in Latin and Greek, the most scholarly lyr
Plinius:Ep_3.3 we must look out for a Latin rhetorician with a good rep
Plinius:Ep_4.11 speak my declamations in Latin." You will say that this
Plinius:Ep_4.18 them and turn them into Latin? I grant they have lost in
Plinius:Ep_5.5 ned, accurate style and in the Latin language. They are
Plinius:Ep_5.19 ather mild," and our own Latin phrase, "father of his fami
Plinius:Ep_7.4 of Icaria, I wrote some Latin elegiacs, with the sea and
Plinius:Ep_7.9 to translate from Greek into Latin, or from Latin into
Plinius:Ep_7.25 how polished both his Latin and Greek ! He has obtained
Plinius:Ep_9.36 read aloud a Greek or Latin speech, as clearly and dist
SelPap_2.315 Itureans and exhibited a Latin letter from Pactumeius
ValMax_1.1.12 were seven books in the Latin language, treating of the law
ValMax_1.6.13 examples, which being related in Latin, as they are of less
ValMax_2.2.2 the Greeks only in the Latin language. And also causing them
ValMax_3.4.6 lasting monuments of the Latin language were adorned, military
ValMax_8.7e.1 which it deserves in the Latin language. Demosthenes, the mention of

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