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|lshtext=<b>Albānus</b>: a, um, adj. [[Alba]].<br /> Pertaining to the [[town]] of [[Alba]], Alban: [[exercitus]], Liv. 1, 28: pax, the [[peace]] [[between]] the Romans and Albans, id. 1, 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pertaining to [[Albania]]: [[mare]] Albanum, Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 38: ora, Val. Fl. 5, 460.—<br /><b>II</b> Hence, Albāni, ōrum, m.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The Albans, the inhabitants of [[Alba]] Longa, Liv. 1, 29.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The Albanians, the inhabitants of [[Albania]], on the [[Caspian]] Sea, Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 38.— Esp., Lăcus Albānus, a [[deep]] [[lake]] in [[Latium]], [[south]] of [[Rome]], and on the [[west]] [[side]] of old [[Alba]], [[now]] Lago di Albano, Liv. 5, 15.—Mons Albānus, a [[rocky]] [[mountain]] in [[Latium]], [[now]] Monte Cavo, [[lying]] eastward from the Alban Lake, 2500 feet [[above]] the [[surface]] of the Tyrrhene Sea, on whose [[western]] [[declivity]], extending to the [[lake]], [[was]] the old [[Alba]] Longa. Upon its [[summit]], [[which]] afforded a [[noble]] [[view]], stood the [[splendid]] [[temple]] of [[Juppiter]] Latiaris, up to [[which]] [[wound]] a [[paved]] [[way]], [[still]] in [[part]] existing, for the [[festive]] processions in the holidays of the [[Latins]] ([[feriae]] [[Latinae]]), as [[well]] as for the ovations of the Roman generals, cf. Müll. Roms Camp. 2, 139-146.— Lăpis Albānus, the [[kind]] of [[stone]] hewn from Mount [[Alba]], called in Ital. peperino or piperno, Vitr. 2, 7; [[hence]]. Albanae columnae, made of [[such]] [[stone]], Cic. Scaur. 2, 45.—Albānum, i, n., an [[estate]] at [[Alba]], Cic. Att. 7, 5; Quint. 5, 13, 40; Suet. Aug. 72.

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