Chap. 9.] ACCOUNT Or COFKTEIES, ETC. 199 
raiii\, tlie Allifani^, the Atinates^, the Aletrinates^, the 
Anagnini% the Atellani^ the Affilani^, the Arpinates^, 
the Auximates^, the Abellani^^, the Alfaterni (both those 
who take their names from the Latin, the Hernican 
and the Labicanian territory), Bovillse^^ Calatia^^, Casi- 
^ The people of Acerra, still called by the same name ; it was plun- 
dered and burnt by Hannibal, B.C. 216, but was rebuilt by order of the 
Roman senate. 
^ The people of Alhfse, a former city of Samniujn, on the borders of 
Campania. The modern city of Ahfe, a decayed place, stands on its site. 
There are considerable remains. 
3 The people of Atina, an ancient city of the Yolscians. The modern 
city of Atina, noted for the bleakness of its situation, stands on its site. 
There are extensive ruins of the ancient city. 
^ The people of Aletrium or Alatrium, an ancient city of the Hemici, 
The modern Alatri stands on its site ; there are but few ancient remains. 
^ The people of Anagnia in Latium, still called Anagni. There are 
scarcely any remains of the ancient place, wliich was of considerable 
importance. 
^ The people of Atella, an ancient city of Campania. Some remams 
of its ruins are to be seen two miles east of the town of Aversa, near the 
villages of San Arpino and San Elpidio. 
7 The people of Affilse, an ancient Hernican town. It is still called 
Affile, and has many ancient remains. 
^ The people of Arpinum, once a famous city of the Yolscians. The 
present Arpino occupies its site ; there are few Roman remauas, but its 
ancient walls, of Cyclopean construction, still exist. It was the birth- 
place of Marius and Cicero. The villa of the latter was on the banks of 
the adjoining river Fibrenus. It was, and is still, famous for its woollen 
manufactures. ^ 
9 The people of Auximum, a city of Picenum. Its site is occupied by! ^^A' 
the modern Osimo ; there are numerous remains of antiquity to be seen 
10 Qj. perhaps *'Abellmi," people of Abeliiacum ; wliich, if meant, 
ought not to be included in this division, being a city of the Hirpini. 
This city was finally destroyed in the wars of the G-reeks and Lombards, 
and the modern Avelluio rose on its site. There are considerable ruins in 
the vicinity. According to Hardouin, this place also claimed the honour 
of giving name to filberts, which grew abundantly in its vicinity. If such 
is the case, it seems probable that both it and Abella took their names 
from that fruit as called by the early inhabitants. See JSote in p. 198. 
An ancient city of Latium. Its ruins are to be seen in the vicinity 
of the Via Appia. See a curious story connected with it in Ovid's Fasti, 
B. iii. 1. 667 et seq. 
^- There were two cities of this name on the confines of Samnium and 
Campania, one in the valley of the Yoltm^num, the modern Caiazzo, the 
other in Campania, between Capua and Beneventum, whose ruins are 
probably those to be seen at Le G-alazzi, between Caserta and Maddaloni. 
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