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The Tiber
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  • The Tiber gurgled past them in the dark, the waters swollen from the winter thaw and spring floods.†  (source)
  • They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†  (source)
  • The Tiber Creek and its adjacent canal are open sewers, a breeding ground for typhus, cholera, and dysentery.†  (source)
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  • I will never forget Romulus suckling the Tiber.†  (source)
  • Many of them were burned at the stake and tossed unceremoniously into the Tiber River.†  (source)
  • The night is gloomy, and the Tiber is very near the Via Macello.†  (source)
  • She wanted to see the original Tiber River, where Lupa the wolf goddess saved Romulus and Remus.†  (source)
  • I saw the Tiber flowing along, yellow as jaundice.†  (source)
  • To the west the wide basin of the Tiber River wound enormous arcs across the city.†  (source)
  • There were the big steel engravings on the wall—by Piranesi, in the heavy, scrollwork frames, the Tiber, the Colosseum, some ruined temple.†  (source)
  • He saw a lone warrior standing on a stone bridge, facing an entire army massed on the far side of the Tiber River.†  (source)
  • "The Orontes against the Tiber!" he repeated, with an increase of scornful emphasis.†  (source)
  • It stood on the banks of the Tiber River diagonally adjacent to the Vatican.†  (source)
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