BOOK III. V. 62-65 



of the Sirens. From this place the distance by sea 

 from Cerceii is 78 miles, This region, beginning from 

 the Tiber, under the partition made by Augustus is 

 regarded as the first region of Italy. 



Inland are the following colonies : Capua, so named 

 from its forty miles of plain (campus), Aquino, Suessa, 

 Venafro, Sora, Teano surnamed Sidicinum, and Nola ; 

 and the to^vTis of AbelHnum, Aricia, Alba Longa, the 

 Acerrani, the Alhfani, the Atinates, the Aletrinates, 

 the Anagnini, the Atellani, the Aefulani, the Arpi- 

 nates, the Auximates, the Abellani, the Alfaterni 

 (both those that take their surname from the Latin 

 territorjs and from the Hernican, and from the 

 Labican), Bo\illae, Caiatiae, Casinum, Calenum, 

 Capitulimi of the Hernici, the Cereatini who have the 

 surname of Mariani, the Corani descended from the 

 Trojan Dardanus, the Cubulterini, the Castrimoenien- 

 ses, the Cingulani, the Fabienses on Mount Albanus, 

 the Foropopulienses from the Falernian district, 

 the Frusinates, the Fcrentinates, the Freginates, the 

 Old Fabraterni, the New Fabraterni, the Ficolenses, 

 the Fregellani, Forum Appi, the Forentani, the 

 Gabini, the Interamnates Sucasini, also called the 

 Lirenates, the Ilionenses, the Lanivini, the Norbani, 

 the Nomentani, the Praenestini with their city once 

 called Stephane, the Privernates, the Setini, the 

 Signini, the Suessulani, the Telesini, the Trebulani 

 surnamed Ballienses, the Trebani, the Tusculani, the 

 Verulani, the Veliterni, the Ulubrenses, the Urban- 

 ates ; and besides all these Rome itself, whose other 

 name it is held to be a sin to utter except at the 

 ceremonies of the mysteries, and when Valerius 

 Soranus divulged the secret religiously kept for the 

 weal of the state, he soon paid the penalty. It seems 



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