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ARICIA (mod. Ariccia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARICIA (mod. Ariccia) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Latium, on the Via See also:Appia, 16 m. S.E. of See also:Rome. The old See also:town, or at any See also:rate its See also:acropolis, now occupied by the See also:modern town, See also:lay high (1350 ft. above See also:sea-level) above the circular See also:Valle Aricciana, which is probably an See also:extinct volcanic See also:crater; some remains of its fortifications, consisting of a See also:mound of See also:earth supported on each See also:side by a See also:wall of rectangular blocks of See also:peperino See also:stone, have been discovered (D. Marchetti, in Notizie degli scavi, 1892, 52). The See also:lower town was situated on the See also:north edge of the valley, See also:close to the Via Appia, which descended into the valley from the modern Albano, and re-ascended partly upon very See also:fine substructions of See also:opus quadratum, some 200 yds. in length, to the modern Genzano. Remains of the walls of the lower town, of the See also:cella of a See also:temple built of blocks of peperino, and also of later buildings in See also:brick-See also:work and opus reticulatum, connected with the See also:post-station (Aricia being the first important station out of Rome, cf. See also:Horace, Sat. i. 5. 1, Egressum magna me excepit Aricia See also:Roma hospitio modico) on the highroad, may still be seen (cf. T. See also:Ashby in Melanges de l'ecole francaise de Rome, 1903, 399).

Aricia was one of the See also:

oldest cities of Latium, and appears as a serious opponent of Rome at the end of the See also:period of the See also:kings and beginning of the See also:republic. In 338 B.C. it was conquered by C. See also:Maenius and became a civitas sine suffragio, but was soon given full rights. Even in the imperial period its See also:chief See also:magistrate was styled See also:dictator, and its See also:council senatus, and it preserved its own See also:calendar of festivals. Its vegetables and See also:wine were famous, and the See also:district is still fertile. (T.

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