- ORONAIM
- ORONAIMvel Horonaim, duo vici, quâ via est Assyrios, sive duae urbes Moabitarum: una superior, altera inferior, Esai. c. 15. v. 5. Latine trae, vel furores, aut Syriace, libertates.
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