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COLLATIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLLATIA , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Latium, ro m. E. by N. of See also:Rome by the Via Collatina. It appears in the legendary See also:history of Rome as captured by Tarquinius See also:Priscus. See also:Livy tells us it was taken from the Sabines, while See also:Virgil speaks of it as a Latin See also:colony. In the See also:time of See also:Cicero it had lost all importance; See also:Strabo names it as a See also:mere See also:village, in private hands, while for See also:Pliny it was one of the lost cities of Latium. The site is undoubtedly to be sought on the See also:hill now occupied by the large See also:medieval fortified farmhouse of Lunghezza, immediately to the See also:south of the Anio, which occupies the site of the, citadel joined by a narrow See also:neck to the tableland to the south-See also:east on which the See also:city stood: this is protected by wide valleys on each See also:side, and is isolated at the south-east end by a deep narrow valley enlarged by cutting. No remains are to be seen, but the site is admirably adapted for an ancient See also:settlement. The road may be traced leading to the south end of this tableland, being identical with the See also:modern road to Lunghezza for the See also:middle See also:part of its course only. The current indentification with Castellaccio, 2 M. to the south-east, is untenable. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, i. 138 seq., iii.

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