Word: porta
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Before the Norman invasion, the Mayor was known as the Portreeve (porta, Latin for gate; reeve, Saxon for chief magistrate of town; of, shirereeve, contracted to sheriff). So strong was the City at this time that the Great Conqueror placed special value on securing its voluntary sanction to his kingship...
Details may be obtained from Avv. Corrado Petrone, President of the Executive Committee, Via della Mercede, 33, Rome, and general information from the representative of the American University Union in Rome, Professor Gorham Stevens, Porta Pancrazio...
...arch built of massive blocks of tufa, and supposed to be the Porta Trigemina, has been unearthed at the foot of the Aventine Hill, near the Forum, in Rome...
...Baker in verse entitled "On the Quay at Porta Portese" tells an interesting historical anecdote of pagan Rome. We have already noted a peculiar characteristic of the poetry of Mr. Baker, that of tone. It is here again noticeable. There seems to be a dull hush falling on the lines which serves the purpose of a true onomatopoeia...