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Vallum   Listen
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Vallum  n.  (pl. L. valla, E. vallums)  (Rom. Antiq.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.






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"Vallum" Quotes from Famous Books



... horas pugnatum esset[1] ac non solum vires sed etiam tela Romanos deficerent[1], atque hostes acrius instarent,[1] et vallum scindere fossamque complere incepissent,[1] Caesar, vir rei militaris peritissimus, suis imperavit ut proelium paulisper intermitterent,[2] et, signo dato, ex castris erumperent.[2] [3]Quod iussi sunt faciunt, et subito ex omnibus portis erumpunt. Atque tam celeriter ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

... quasi vallum maris, i. e. the wall or fortification made against the sea, was expressed to have been a member of the port of Sandwich ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 • Various

... In vallum Egeriae descendimus et speluncas Dissimiles veris—quanto praestantius esset Numen aquae, viridi si margine clauderet undas Herba, nec ingenuum violarent ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... of the chiefs of the Trinobantes was asked first to give a minute description of the Roman camp. The works were formidable. Surrounding it was a broad and deep fosse, into which a stream was turned. Beyond this there was a double vallum or wall of earth so steep as to be climbed with great difficulty. In the hollow between the two walls sharp stakes were set thickly together. The second wall was higher than the first, and completely commanded it. Along its top ran a solid palisade of massive beams, behind ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

... this beautiful chain of hills, they arrived at an immense Roman encampment, vulgarly called Uffingham Castle, occupying the crown of a hill. A shepherd, who was tending a flock of sheep which were browsing on the delicious herbage to be found within the vast circular space enclosed by the inner vallum of the camp, explained its purpose, and they could not but regard it with interest. He informed them that they were in the neighbourhood of the famous White Horse, a figure cut out of the turf on the hillside by the Saxons, and visible for many miles. Conducting them to a point whence ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... stone might be plentiful, as it is in most parts of Wales, of stone. Like a military camp, the whole place would be surrounded with fosse and vallum. They grew their own corn and vegetables, milked their own cows, fished in the streams, and supported themselves. The sky roofed their lecture-halls; of which the walls, if there were any, were the trees and the mountains. But these places were real centers of learning, the best there were ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris



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