The inhabitants of Præneste raised the nut tree to a sort of religious worship.
The temple of Fortune at Præneste was erected by Augustus.
Then when their line maintained its ground in no quarter, they turn their backs; and being thrown into consternation and carried beyond their own camp by their panic, they stop not from their precipitate speed, until Præneste came in view.
When the Roman cause was supported by this aid, the tidings that the Gauls had come to Præneste and were encamped near to Pedum, were less heeded.
In their consulship, Fidenæ was besieged, Crustumeria taken, and Præneste revolted from the Latins to the Romans.
They are both fortified, but Præneste is the stronger place of the two, having for its citadel a lofty mountain, which overhangs the town, and is divided at the back from the adjoining mountain range by a neck of land.
Other cities are in most instances benefited by a strong position, but to the people of Præneste it has proved a bane, owing to the civil wars of the Romans.
They are said to be both of Grecian foundation, Præneste being formerly named Polystephanus.
At Præneste is the celebrated temple and oracle of Fortune.
But once at Præneste all these forebodings were thrust into the background.
The moon was risen, and guided by its light the young slave flew on toward Præneste without incident.
I will go to Marcellus the consul, and demand that troops be started to Præneste to-night.
You know Dumnorix will have a great band of gladiators, and there is no force in Præneste that can be counted on to restrain him.
As for Publius Gabinius, who had on one occasion given her such distress, nothing had been heard or seen of him since the Præneste affair.
To-morrow evening a messenger from Præneste will come here, and if your guest is still safe in your custody, you shall have six more gold pieces.
Perhaps there would be no real harm in driving straight through to Præneste in the open daylight, but it was better not to show himself until the right time.
But I have asked Publius Gabinius to leave for Præneste very early on the morning when Dumnorix passes through that place.
III The paternal villa of Drusus lay on the lower part of the slope of the Præneste citadel, facing the east.
Doubtless he would have felt highly insulted if his family history had not been fairly well known to every respectable person around Præneste and to a very large and select circle at Rome.
The villa at Præneste was guarded quietly by several armed slaves and peasants; not a morsel or drop passed Drusus's lips that had not been tested and tasted by a trusty dependent.
The same Censor also brought water from Præneste to Rome by a subterranean channel 11 miles long.
A little way above the station of Montréjeau the two great Pyrenean torrents of the Neste and the Garonne unite their waters and flow towards the east.
The entrance to the valley of the Neste de Luron is through a ravine with precipitous sides.
For some way above Bordères the Neste of Luron traverses a gloomy ravine; but then all at once it opens out and we come on a basin well cultivated, fringed with woods, and studded with twelve villages, about their church spires.
The canal takes its waters from the Neste above the little town, and the river accordingly has in the upper portion of the valley a freer and fuller flow.
Aventin on theNeste d’Oucil, a picturesquely situated village, with an interesting church of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
It rises under the Pic de Campbieil, 9550 feet; but receives a large influx of water from the Neste de Couplan that is supplied from a whole series of lakes, the largest of which is Orredon.
A tunnel has been driven fifty-five feet below the surface through the rock that retains the lake, and through this the water can be drawn off to supply the deficiencies in the Neste and the canal that leads from it in time of drought.
Præneste seems to be a compound of Puren Esta, the lots of Esta, the Deity of fire.
The same lots of divination being used at Præneste was the occasion of the God being called Jupiter Pur.
At Præneste the name was particularly kept up on account of this divination by [464]lots.
Sulla made all the people in Præneste come out into the plain unarmed, that he picked out those who had served him, who were very few, and these he spared.
Finally, being shut up in Præneste by Sulla, and having in vain tried all ways of saving his life, he killed himself when he saw that the city was captured and all escape was hopeless.
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