Question

Residents of a “hanging city” above this river were terrorized by rumors of a giant octopus and prayed to a beauty goddess “of the Sewer.” During Argei, twenty-seven straw figures were thrown annually into this river to honor a drowned king of Alba Longa that may name it. (10[2])The Tetrarchy was abolished shortly after a battle on this river’s Milvian Bridge. The first colonia was a city at the mouth (-5[1])of this river (10[1])which imported (10[1])grain and was named Ostia. This river’s aqueducts like the Aqua Appia supplied water (10[1])to bathhouses in a city built on seven hills like the (10[1])Palatine and (10[1])Capitoline. For 10 points, name this river that flows through Rome. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Tiber River [or Tiberis or Tevere; prompt on Albula] (The first line is Pliny the Elder’s description of Rome and of Cloacina as the “Venus of the Sewer.” The drowned king was Tiberinus.)
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Pranaav SenthilkumarCornell CCornell E4710
Kritanu SahaCornell ACornell F4710
Owen LinderBinghamton ARIT B69-5
Alec RisoCornell DSyracuse7210
Iris LiangCornell GBinghamton B7410
Gregory StoneESFU of Rochester A8810
Chris ScheriRIT BBinghamton A9910
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Sammy CarstensU of Rochester BBinghamton C1130
Grace GriffithsPenn StateCornell B11310