Tiberis

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §3 Tiber

  Rome's river, anciently the Albula; boundary of Etruscans and Latins.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §5 Tiber

  The river of Rome; into its summer shallows the spelt of the Tarquins' field was cast, forming the Tiber Island.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §13 the Tiber

  Rome's river; the land across it (trans Tiberim) lay outside the old city, where Caeso's ruined father withdrew.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §12 the Tiber

  The river of Rome, its highway for grain and its frequent flooder of the lowlands.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §13 the Tiber

  The river of Rome, frozen and unnavigable in the great winter of this year.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §3 the Tiber

  Rome's river, whose overflow flooded the circus and broke off the games, taken as a sign of divine anger.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §14 the Tiber

  The river of Rome; the Veliterni senators are removed to dwell beyond it.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §9 the Tiber overflowed the fields

  The river of Rome, whose double flood that year ruined buildings and drowned men and cattle.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §14 Tiber

  The river Tiber, at whose mouth the ship bearing the goddess arrived.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §38 Tiber

  The river Tiber, whose flood drove the Apolline games from the inundated circus.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §21 the Tiber

  The river of Rome, here in destructive flood.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §35 the Tiber

  The river of Rome, on whose bank the captive Aetolian Damocritus killed himself.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §19 Tiber

  The river of Rome, which flooded the Campus Martius twelve times that year.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §13 Tiber

  The river of Rome, to which the frenzied Bacchic matrons ran with torches.