The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capitolian \Cap`i*to"li*an\, Capitoline \Cap"i*to*line\, a. [L.
capitolinus: cf. F. capitolin.]
Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. ``Capitolian Jove.''
--Macaulay.
Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, after a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year. [1913 Webster] ||
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Usage examples of "capitoline".
Roman antiquarians identified the Cabeiri with the three Capitoline deities or with the Penates.
The identification of the three Capitoline deities with the Penates, and of these with the Cabeiri, tended to increase this feeling.
Start with the arch of Domitian on the Corso, then go to the column of Trajan, after that see the Capitoline collection of bronzes that my granduncle, Sixtus IV, started.
In his last visit to Rome, he piously disclaimed and insulted the superstition of his ancestors, by refusing to lead the military procession of the equestrian order, and to offer the public vows to the Jupiter of the Capitoline Hill.
A number of Roman copies of Greek frescos and mosaics are in the Vatican, Capitoline, and Naples Museums.
Halotus supplied him the poison while he was banqueting with the priests on the Capitoline, but Dio Cassius, lxi, 34, confirms the Tacitean account.
At the same time, a somber parade of Roman matrons trooped up to the Capitoline, which had been spared the flames, and humbly implored Juno to cool her anger, bathing her statue with water from the Mediterranean and holding all-night vigils in her honor.
Sacred Way past the basilica Maxentius had begun and Constantine had completed and the old shrines that nestled against the base of the Palatine Hill, and was moving up and around the hill crowned by the temple to the Capitoline Jove.
Senate house, the Sacred Way brought them to the foot of the great staircase up to the Temple of Jupiter Capitoline, the lofty citadel of Rome that was the goal of the cavalcade.
Claudius wheezing and gasping, they reached the very summit of Rome, the ridge of the Capitoline hill on which towered the classic columns of the Temple of Jupiter.
The radiant creature who had invaded his senses ever since that day on the Capitoline but seemed so unattainable a dream for so long was part of him now.
He gave his life for the Flavian cause, fighting heroically on the Capitoline hill to deliver Rome to his brother.
Suetonius, Divus Claudius, xliv-xlvi, also cites an alternate version that the eunuch Halotus supplied him the poison while he was banqueting with the priests on the Capitoline, but Dio Cassius, lxi, 34, confirms the Tacitean account.
I have been here a week, and have seen the Vatican and the Capitoline Museums, and the Sistine Chapel, and St.
They got off at the Capitoline, then became tourists, walking into the Forum just as it opened.