Pătăvium

, a city of Italy, at the north of the Po, on the shores of the Adriatic, now called Padua , and once said to be capable of sending 20,000 men into the field. See: Padua . It is the birthplace of Livy, from which reason some writers have denominated Patavinity those peculiar expre ions and provincial dialect, which they seem to discover in the historian’s style, not strictly agreeable to the purity and refined language of the Roman authors who flourished in or near the August an age. Martial , bk. 11 , ltr. 17 , li. 8 .— Quintilian , bk. 1 , chs. 5, 56; bk. 8 , ch. 13 .— Livy , bk. 10 , ch. 2 ; bk. 41 , ch. 27 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .