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STRABO.
CASAUB. 228.

way are Interamna,[p 1] Spoletium,[p 2] Asisium,[1] and Camerta, situated in the mountains which bound Picenum. On the other side[2] are Ameria,[p 3] Tuder,[p 4] a well-fortified city, Hispellum,[p 5] and Iguvium,[3] near to the passes of the mountain. The whole of this country is fertile, but rather too mountainous, and producing more rye[g 1] than wheat for the food of the inhabitants. The next district, Sabina, is mountainous, and borders on Tyrrhenia in like manner. The parts of Latium which border on these districts and the Apennines are very rugged. These two nations[p 6] commence from the Tiber and Tyrrhenia, and extend as far as the Apennines which advance obliquely towards the Adriatic: Ombrica extends, as we have said, beyond as far as the sea. We have now sufficiently described the Ombrici.

CHAPTER III.

1. THE Sabini occupy a narrow country, its length from the Tiber and the small city of Nomentum[p 7] to the Vestini being 1000 stadia. They have but few cities, and these have suffered severely in their continual wars [with the Romans]. Such are Amiternum[4] and Reate,[p 8] which is near to the village of Interocrea[5] and the cold waters at Cotyliæ, which are taken by patients, both as drink and as baths, for the cure of various maladies. The rocks of Foruli,[p 9] likewise, belong to the Sabini; fitted rather for rebellion than peaceable habitation. Cures is now a small village, although formerly a famous city: whence came Titus Tatius and Numa Pompilius, kings of Rome. From this place is derived the name of Quirites, which the orators give to the Romans when they address the people. Trebula,[p 10] Eretum,[6] and other similar places, must

  1. ↑ Between Spoleto and Camerino.
  2. ↑ The left side of the Via Flaminia.
  3. ↑ Eugubbio, or Gubbio, where the celebrated inscriptions were found in 1440.
  4. ↑ Groskurd considers this to be Amatrice.
  5. ↑ Interdoco, between Rieti and Aquila.
  6. ↑ Chaupy considers this to be Rimane.
  1. ↑ Terni.
  2. ↑ Spoleto.
  3. ↑ Amelia.
  4. ↑ Todi.
  5. ↑ Hispello.
  6. ↑ Sabina and Latium.
  7. ↑ Probably Lamentana Vecchia.
  8. ↑ Rieti.
  9. ↑ Civita Tommassa, or rather Forcella.
  10. ↑ Monte Leone della Sabina.
  1. ↑ ζειὰ
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