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LUCUS FERONIAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCUS FERONIAE , an See also:

ancient See also:shrine in See also:Etruria. It was visited both by Latins and Sabines even in the See also:time of Tullus Hostilius and was plundered by See also:Hannibal in 211 B.C. It was undoubtedly in the territory of See also:Capena (q.v.); but in imperial times it became an See also:independent community receiving a See also:colony of Octavian's veterans (Colonia Iulia See also:felix Lucoferensis) and possessing an See also:amphitheatre. Its site has been disputed. Some authorities See also:place it on the Colle Civitucola (but see CAPENA), others at the See also:church of S. Abbondio near Rignano, others (and probably rightly) at Nazzano, which was reached by a See also:branch road from the Via See also:Flaminia, where remains of a circular See also:temple have been found. See E. Bormann in Corp. Inscr. See also:Lat. xi. 569 sqq.; H. Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, ii.

369 sqq. (T.

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