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place

Falernus ager

Falernian country

also: Falerno vino, Falernian wine, Falernum

The Falernian district of northern Campania, source of Rome's most prized wine; Cicero in the Brutus uses Falernian wine as a figure for prose of the right age, neither too new nor too old.

Mentioned in 2 works (2 mentions)

Brutus rhet · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 6.19 letter · 1 mention

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