Definitions for Praeneste

Praeneste Prae·nes·te

Spelling: [pree-nes-tee]
IPA: /priˈnɛs ti/

Praeneste is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 490 anagrams from letters in Praeneste (aeeenprst).

Definitions for Praeneste

noun

  1. ancient name of Palestrina.

Examples for Praeneste

He would have run away and joined the gladiators when they rose at Praeneste had I not dissuaded him.

He usually travelled in a litter, and by night: and so slow, that he was two days in going to Praeneste or Tibur.

Cicero during his consulship speaks of one at Rome, and there were others before his time at Capua and Praeneste.

He who arrived first at Praeneste was enjoined to wait there for his colleague.

It was yet noon when Adrian beheld before him the lofty mountains that shelter Palestrina, the Praeneste of the ancient world.

Imperator (Impera′tor) was a name of Jupiter, given to him at Praeneste.

More than one allusion indicates that the citizens of Praeneste were especially regarded as butts by the wits of Rome19.

More than one allusion indicates that the citizens of Praeneste were especially regarded as butts by the wits of Rome.

Then with a hearty adieu to Scopus Beric placed himself at the head of his band and struck off by the road to Praeneste.

Praeneste, on the other hand, which must formerly have been subject to the Æquians, now appears as an independent town.

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