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Mons Aetna

Etna

also: Aetnam

The great volcano of eastern Sicily. Cicero uses its fiery breath as a figure for how he would have buried Verres under the testimony of all Sicily, contrasting Triarius's single Sardinian witness.

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Mentioned in 2 works (2 total)

For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speeches · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 1 mention

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