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FREGELLAE

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FREGELLAE , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Latium adiectum, situated on the Via See also:Latina,' r m. W. N. W. of Aquinum, near the See also:left See also:branch of the Liris. It is said to have belonged in See also:early times to the Opici or Oscans, and later to the Volscians. It was apparently destroyed by the See also:Samnites a little before 330 B.C., in which See also:year the See also:people of Fabrateria Vetus (mod. Ceccano) besought the help of See also:Rome against them, and in 328 B.C. a Latin See also:colony was established there. The See also:place was taken in 320 B.C. by the Samnites, but re-established by the See also:Romans in 313 B.C. It continued hence-forward to be faithful to Rome; by breaking the See also:bridges over the Liris it interposed an obstacle to the advance of See also:Hannibal on Rome in 212 B.C., and it was a native of Fregellae who headed the deputation of the non-revolting colonies in 209 B.C. It appears to have been a very important and flourishing place owing to its command of the See also:crossing of the Liris, and to its position in a fertile territory, and it was here that, after the rejection of the proposals of M. Fulvius See also:Flaccus for the See also:extension of See also:Roman See also:burgess-rights in 125 B.C., a revolt against Rome See also:broke out. It was captured by treachery in the same year and destroyed; but its place was taken in the following year by the colony of Fabrateria Nova, 3 M. to the S.E. on the opposite See also:bank of the Liris, while a See also:post station Fregellanum (mod.

Ceprano) is mentioned in the itineraries; Fregellae itself, however, continued to exist as a See also:

village even under the See also:empire. The site is clearly traceable about 1 m. E. of Ceprano, but the remains of the See also:city are scanty. See G. Colasanti, Fregellae, storks e topografia (1906). (T.

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