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Latium Vetus or Latium Antiquum is a region of the Italian Peninsula bounded to the north by the Tiber River, to the east by the central Apennine Mountains, to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to
Polychrome antefix with female head with nimbus from Lanuvium, late-Archic temple of Juno Sospita, 500 BC, Villa Poniatowski, Rome
Acroterial statue of harpy-siren, beginning of the 5th century BC, from Gabii
Frontonal sima with procession of floats and winged horses, 510–490 BC, from Praeneste
Antefix with Satyr and Maenad dancing from the acropolis, Temple of Mater Matuta, 490–470 BC, from Satricum
Latium
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Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded, the capital city of the Roman Empire. The wide, flat region lends its name to Latin.
Latium Vetus
…Italic tribes such as the Rutulians, Volscians, Aequi, and Hernici. The region was referred to as "old" to distinguish it from the expanded region, Latium, that included the region to the south of Old Latium, between Monte Circeo and the river Garigliano – the so-called Latium adiectum ("attached Latium…
Latium, Enric Serra Auqué, 1888. Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer
Bust of Augustus wearing the Civic Crown. Glyptothek, Munich