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BOVILLAE , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Latium, a station on the Via See also:Appia (which in 293 B.C. was already paved to this point),r1 m. S.E. of See also:Rome. It was a See also:colony of See also:Alba Longa, and appears as one of the See also:thirty cities of the Latin See also:league; after the destruction of Alba Longa the sacra were, it was held, transferred to Bovillae, including the cult of See also:Vesta (in See also:inscriptions virgines Vestales Albanae are mentioned, and the inhabitants of Bovillae are always spoken of as See also:Albani Longani Bovillenses) and that of the gens Julia. The existence of this hereditary See also:worship led to an increase in its importance when the See also:Julian See also:house See also:rose to the highest See also:power in the See also:state. The knights met See also:Augustus's dead See also:body at Bovillae on its way to Rome, and in A.D. 16 the See also:shrine of the.See also:family worship was dedicated anew,' and yearly See also:games in the See also:circus instituted, probably under the See also:charge of the sodales Augustales, whose See also:official See also:calendar has been found here. In See also:history Bovillae appears as the See also:scene of the See also:quarrel between See also:Milo and See also:Clodius, in which the latter, whose See also:villa See also:lay above the town on the See also:left of the Via Appia, was killed. The site is not naturally strong, and remains of See also:early fortifications cannot be traced. It may be that Bovillae took the See also:place of Alba Longa as a See also:local centre after the destruction of the latter by Rome, which would explain the deliberate choice of a strategically weak position. Remains of buildings of the imperial period—the circus, a small See also:theatre, and edifices probably connected with the See also:post-station—may still be seen on the See also:south-See also:west edge of the Via Appia. See L. See also:Canina, Via Appia (Rome, 1853), i.

202 seq.; T. See also:

Ashby in Melanges de l'ecole francaise de Rome (1903), p. 395. (T.

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