query: place_of_birth lucius aelius stilo praeconinus
supports: Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians. It was located on the left bank (east and south) of the Tiber river, extending northward to the Anio river (a left-bank tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus (Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory. The right bank of the Tiber was occupied by the Etruscan city of Veii, and the other borders were occupied by Italic tribes. Subsequently, Rome defeated Veii and then its Italic neighbors, expanding Latium to the Apennine Mountains in the northeast and to the opposite end of the marsh in the southeast. The modern descendant, the Italian "Regione" of Lazio, also called "Latium" in Latin, and occasionally in modern English, is somewhat larger still, but not as much as double the original Latium. Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus ( / stalo / ; c. 154 -- 74 BC ) , of Lanuvium , is the earliest philologist of the Roman Republic . He came from a distinguished family and belonged to the equestrian order . He was called Stilo ( Latin stylus , `` pen '' ) , because he wrote speeches for others , and Praeconinus from his father 's profession ( praeco , `` announcer , public crier , herald '' ) . His aristocratic sympathies were so strong that he voluntarily accompanied Caecilius Metellus Numidicus into exile . At Rome he divided his time between teaching ( although not as a professional schoolmaster ) and literary work . His most famous pupils were Varro and Cicero , and amongst his friends were Coelius Antipater , the historian , and Lucilius , the satirist , who dedicated their works to him . According to Cicero , who expresses a poor opinion of his powers as an orator , Stilo was a follower of the Stoic school . Only a few fragments of his works remain . He wrote commentaries on the hymns of the Salii ( Carmen Saliare ) , and probably also on the Twelve Tables . He analyzed the authenticity of comedies supposedly by Plautus , and recognized 25 as canonical , four more than were allowed by Varro . It is probable that he was the author of a general glossographical work , dealing with literary , historical and antiquarian questions . The rhetorical treatise Ad Herennium has been attributed to him by some modern scholars . The Roman Kingdom was the period of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a monarchical form of government of the city of Rome and its territories. Rome is a city and special "comune" (named "Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region. With 2,870,336 residents in , it is also the country's largest and most populated "comune" and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4.3 million residents. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of Tiber river. The Vatican City is an independent country geographically located within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.  The Roman Republic was the era of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. Hegemony (or , or  "leadership, rule") is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others. In ancient Greece (8th century BCE  6th century CE), "hegemony" denoted the politicomilitary dominance of a city-state over other city-states. The dominant state is known as the "hegemon". A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law. Lanuvio is a "comune" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about southeast of Rome, on the Alban Hills. The Roman Empire (Koine and Medieval Greek:   , tr. ) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. The city of Rome was the largest city in the world BC AD, with Constantinople (New Rome) becoming the largest around 500 AD, and the Empire's populace grew to an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population at the time). The 500-year-old republic which preceded it was severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflict, during which Julius Caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in 44 BC. Civil wars and executions continued, culminating in the victory of Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt. Octavian's power was then unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title "Augustus", effectively marking the end of the Roman Republic. Lanuvium (more frequently Lanivium in Imperial Roman times, later Civita Lavinia, modern Lanuvio) is an ancient city of Latium, some southeast of Rome, a little southwest of the Via Appia.
candidates: ancient greece antony capital city central fertile greece italy lanuvio lanuvium legal of republic roman roman empire rome time union
answer: lanuvio