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Eome, Antipolis\ now Janiculum, forming part of Eome, 
Antemnae^, Carnerium^, CoUatia^, 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- 
1 Said to have been so called from being "opposite" to the ancient 
city of Satumia. The Janiculus or Janiculum was a fortress on the 
opposite bank of the Tiber, and a suburb of Borne, connected with it by 
the Sublician bridge. 
2 A very ancient city situate three miles from Eome, 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 viUage. It stood at the confluence 
of the Anio and the Tiber. 
3 An ancient city of Latium reduced by Tarquinius Priscus. It has 
been suggested that the town of Palombara, near the foot of Monte 
Grennaro, stands on its site. 
'* An ancient city of Latium. It probably gradually feU 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 
CasteUaccio 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 Yittorino, 
a village near Aquila. 
^ An ancient town of the Yolsci, five leagues from Yelletri. Sermo- 
nata now stands on its site. It must not be confounded with the town 
of the Pehgni, the birth-place of Ovid. 
7 "Popuh Albenses." It does not appear to be exactly known what 
is the force of this 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 boroughs of the 
territory of Alba. 
^ " Accipere carnem." Literally, " to take the flesh." It appears that 
certain nations, of which Alba was the chief, were in early times accus- 
tomed to meet on the Alban Mount 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 all the Latin cities, and 
there can be Httle doubt that the common sacrifice was typical of a bond 
of union 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 G-eography, under the article Latini. 
^ The people of ^sul[e. Of this Latin city nothing is known. The 
territory is mentioned by Horace, and Grell places its site on the Monte 
Affihano. 
