Tibur

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, Lat. Tibur, city (1991 pop. 52,372), in Latium, central Italy, on the Aniene River. An important tourist center, the city is beautifully situated on a terrace dominating nearby Rome and the plain to the sea.
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Tibur is beautiful, too, and the orchard slopes, and the Anio Falling, falling yet, to the ancient lyrical cadence; Tibur and Anio's tide; and cool from Lucretilis ever, With the Digentian stream, and with the Bandusian fountain, Folded in Sabine recesses, the valley and villa of Horace:-- So not seeing I sung; so seeing and listening say I.

Where "Byron Used to Ride": Locating the Victorian Travel Poet in Clough's Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus

(16) Indeed, a lack of recognition and a demand for a more prominent grave monument (one that will attract the attention of the messenger who "runs" by her grave in verse 84) are precisely Cynthia's concern in verses 77-86, where we also learn that Cynthia's tomb is to redound to the credit of Tibur, her place of birth (85).

Propertian Elegy as "restored behavior": evoking Cynthia and Cornelia

In early times the exiled Roman did not need to go far into exile and could find a new home without leaving Latium, in cities such as Tibur, Praeneste, Lavinium and Ardea, or he could go to the Latin colonies.

The Satyrica of Petronius as a Roman palimpsest

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