Ostia

[ os-tee-uh; Italian aw-styah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.

Ostia

/ ˈɒstɪə /

an ancient town in W central Italy, originally at the mouth of the Tiber but now about 6 km (4 miles) inland: served as the port of ancient Rome; harbours built by Claudius and Trajan; ruins excavated since 1854

Like many discoveries, the new part of Ostia Antica was found by accident.

Habet Rimbegui ostia sua sub gradu quadragesimo tertio cum besse.

It was not so very long since Tivoli and Ostia had been occupied by Spanish troops, and the city saved by a sort of accident.

Verbenna down to Ostia hath wasted all the plain; Astur hath storm'd Janiculum, and the stout guards are slain.

Hear ye the fanfares, whose sound reached even to Ostia; the clapping of the hands, the cries of joy?

He had need of hospitality for he was faint from the ride from Ostia in the heat of an Italian June.

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