Lanuvium

So corn sheaves in the flood time spin down the whirling poe.

False Sextus to the mountains turned first his horse's head, and fast fled Ferentinum, and fast Lanuvium fled.

The horsemen of Namentum spurred hard out of the fray, the footman of Velitre, threw shield and spear away, and underfoot was trampled, amidst the mud and gore, the banner of proud Tusculum, that never stooped before.

And down went Flavius Faustus, who led his stately ranks, from where the apple blossoms wave on Anio's echoing banks, and Tullus of Arpinum, chief of the Volscian aides, and Metius, with the long fair curls, the love of Anxur's maids.

So flies the spray of Adria, when on the black squall doth glow so corn sheaves in the flood-time spin down the whirling poe.

Volsextus to the mountains turned first his horse's head, and fast fled Ferentinum, and fast Lanuvium fled.

The horsemen of Namentum spurred hard out of the fray, the footmen of Velitre threw shield and spear away, and underfoot was trampled amidst the mud and gore the banner of proud Tusculum that never stooped before.

And down went Flavius Faustus, who led his stately ranks, From where the apple-blossoms wave on Anio's echoing banks, And Tullus of Arpinum, chief of the Volscian aides, And Metius with the long fair curls, the love of Anxos' maids, And the white head of Volso, the great Arician seer, And Nepos of Laurentum, the hunter of the deer, And in the back false Sextus felt the good Roman steel, and wriggling in the dust he died like a worm beneath the wheel, and flyers and pursuers were mingled in a mass, and far away the battle went roaring through the pass.

He was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what he eat, nor about the texture and colour of his clothes, nor about the beauty of his slaves.

His dress came from Laurium, his villa on the coast, and from Lanuvium generally.

We know how he behaved to the toll-collector at Tusculum, who asked his pardon, and such was all his behaviour.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point.

The first town established was Alba.

Around this sprung up other towns, as Lanuvium, Aricia, Tusculum, Tiber, Praeneste, Laurentum, Roma, and Lavinium.

These towns, thirty in number, formed a confederacy called the Latin Confederacy, and chose Alba to be its head.

The annual festival was celebrated with great solemnity by the magistrates on the Alban Mount, called the Latin Festival.

He notes that his father didn't care about the curiosity of his clothes or how good looking his servants were.

There's this one story he writes down about how Antoninus would wear a simple plain tunic at his country villa in Lanuvium.

And he once actually apologized to a customs officer just for putting on a slightly nicer cloak at Tusculum.

And we have to ask why Marcus obsessed over that specific detail about the tunic.

He was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what he eat, nor about the texture and color of his clothes, nor about the beauty of his slaves.

His dress came from Laurium, his villa on the coast, and from Lanuvium generally.

We know how he behaved to the toll collector at Tusculum, who asked his pardon, and such was all his behavior.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point.

The first town established was Alba.

Around this sprung up other towns, as Lanuvium, Auricia, Tusculum, Tiber, Praeneste, Laurentum, Roma, and Lavinium.

These towns, 30 in number, formed a confederacy called the Latin Confederacy, and chose Alba to be its head.

The annual festival was celebrated with great solemnity by the magistrates on the Alban Mount, called the Latin Festival.

He was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what he eat, nor about the texture and colour of his clothes, nor about the beauty of his slaves.

His dress came from Laurium, his villa on the coast, and from Lanuvium generally.

We know how he behaved to the toll-collector at Tusculum, who asked his pardon, and such was all his behaviour.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point.