Tiber



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Tiber and Tiberis (Tevere). - Though not the largest, yet the most noted river in Italy, on whose banks, according to the well-known legend, a wolf suckled the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus.
Taking its source in the mountains of Etruria, the Tiber flows into Mediterranean at Ostia, on the Latin shore, about twenty miles from where Rome stands, on his southern banks, just below its junction with the Anio.

The Tiber was at first called Albula; but Tiberinus or Tiberis, son of one of the Alban kings, having been drowned by that river, his name was given to it, and he was regarded as god of the stream.


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