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Aventinus

the Aventine

also: Aventine, Aventinum, the Aventine

One of the seven hills of Rome, traditionally associated with the plebs, where Gaius Gracchus and his followers were cornered and killed in 121 BC. Cicero recalls the episode in the Eighth Philippic.

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Mentioned in 4 works (5 total)

For Lucius Murena speeches · 1 mention
On the Commonwealth philosophy · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 12.32 letters · 1 mention
Eighth Philippic speeches · 1 mention

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