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Rome, Antipolis^ now Janiculum, forming part of Eome, 

 Antemnse^, Camerium', Collatia*, Amitinum', Norbe, 

 Sulmo', and, with these, those Alban nations' who used to 

 take part in the sacrifices* upon the Alban Mount, the Al- 

 bani, the ^sulani^, the Accienses, the Abolani, the Bube- 



' Said to have been so called from being " opposite " to the ancient 

 city of Satumia. The Janiculus or Janiculiun was a fortress on the 

 opposite bank of the Tiber, and a suburb of Rome, connected with it by 

 the Sublician bridge. 



2 A very ancient city situate triree miles from Rome, and said to have 

 been so called from its position on the Tiber, ante amnem. In the 

 time of Strabo it had become a mere village. It stood at the confluence 

 of the Anio and the Tiber. 



' An ancient city of Latium reduced by Tarquinius Priscus. It has 

 been suggested that the town of Palombara, near the foot of Monte 

 Gennaro, stands on its site. 



^ An ancient city of Latiiun. It probably gradually fell into decay. 

 Lucius Tarquinius, the husband of Lucretia, is represented as dweUing here 

 during the siege of Ardea. Its site is thought by some to have been at 

 Castellaccio or Castel dell' Osa, and by others at Lunghezza, which is 

 perhaps the most probable conjecture. 



* An ancient city of the Sabines. Its ruins are visible at San Vittorino, 

 a village near Aqulla. 



^ An ancient town of the Vokci, five leagues fi^m Velletri. Sermo- 

 nata now stands on its site. It must not be confovmded with the town 

 of the Pcligni, the birth-place of Ovid. 



? *' Populi Albenses." It does not appear to be exactly known what 

 is the force of tliis expression, but he probably means either colonies from 

 Alba, or else nations who joined in the confederacy of which Alba was the 

 principal. Niebuhr looks upon them as mere demi or borouglis of the 

 territory of Alba. 



^ " Accipere camem." Literally, " to take the flesh." It appears that 

 certain nations, of which Alba was the chief, were in early tunes accus- 

 tomed to meet on the Alban Moimt for the purposes of sacrifice. The 

 subject is full of obscurity, but it has been suggested that this minor con- 

 federacy co-existed with a larger one including aU the Latin cities, and 

 there can be Httle doubt that the common sacnfice was typical of a bond 

 of vmion among the states that partook therein. It does not necessarily 

 appear from the context that more than the thirty -one states after men- 

 tioned took part therein, though the text may be so construed as to imply 

 that the Latin nations previously mentioned also shared in the sacrifice ; 

 if so, it would seem to imply that Alba was the chief city of the whole 

 Latin confederacy. See this subject ably discussed in Dr. Smith's Dic- 

 tionary of Ancient Geography, \mder the article Latini. 



9 The people of jEsulse. Of this Latin city notlung is known. The 

 ten'itory is mentioned by Horace, and Gell places its site on the Monte 

 Affiliano. 



