Word: flaminius
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...their stand. in the center near Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal once (217 B.C.) bloodily wiped out a Roman army under Flaminius, seemed only temporary. They had been providentially helped by days of rain that gummed down the pursuit, forced the unopposed Allied air fleet to drop from more than 2,000 sorties daily to a piddling...
...Rome Harvard Club gave a farewell dinner to Richard Washburn Child, retiring U. S. Ambassador to Italy. The dinner was given in a restaurant containing the remains of the ancient Circus of Flaminius, built in 175 B. C. Ambassador Child proposed the healths of the King of Italy and the President, of the U. S. Two days later the Ambassador was received by Premier Mussolini in a farewell audience...
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