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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 637 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURES , a See also:

Sabine See also:town between the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Tiber and the Via See also:Salaria, about 26 m. from See also:Rome. According to the See also:legend, it was from Cures that See also:Titus Tatius led to the Quirihal the Sabine settlers, from whom, after their See also:union with the settlers on the See also:Palatine, the whole See also:Roman See also:people took the name See also:Quirites. It was also renowned as the birthplace of Numa, and its importance among the Sabines at an See also:early See also:period is indicated by the fact that its territory is often called simply ager Sabinus. At the beginning of the imperial period it is spoken of as an unimportant See also:place, but seems to have risen to greater prosperity in the 2nd See also:century. It appears as the seat of a See also:bishop in the 5th century, but seems to have been destroyed by the See also:Lombards in A.D. 589. The site consists of a See also:hill with two summits, See also:round the See also:base of which runs the Fosso Corese: the western, See also:summit was occupied by the See also:necropolis, the eastern by the citadel, and the See also:lower ground between the two by the See also:city itself. A See also:temple, the See also:forum, the See also:baths, &c., were excavated in 1874—1877. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii. 34. (T.

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