(Modern name: [Tivoli], [Italy])

Ancient [Latin] [city], located 25 [kilometer|km] [North-East|NE] of [Rome]. In [Roman Republic|Republican] times, Tibur was one of the unincorporated cities of the [nomen Latinum]. Later, in the waning years of the Republic, and during the [Roman Empire|Empire], it was a preferred location for the [villa|villas] of the [rich] and [powerful] [upper-crust] of [Roman society]. [Juvenal] had a farm in Tibur, and the [Emperor] [Hadrian] built [Hadrian's villa at Tibur|his famous villa] there, in an [eclectic] [architectural style] reproducing in lesser scale many of the [famous buildings of the ancient world].

In his [Odes] ([Horace, Odes II.6|II,6,5]), [Horace] writes (referring to the [tradition] that Tibur had been founded by [Greeks]):

Tibur Argeo positum colono
Sit meae sedes utinam senectae
Sit modus lasso maris et uiarum
militiaeque

Fair Tibur, town of [Argive] [kings],
[There would I end my days serene],
[At rest from seas and travellings],
And service seen.
(transl. [John Conington], [1882])

Tibur (place)