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NOMENTUM (mod. Mentana)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOMENTUM (mod. Mentana) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Italy, 14 in. N.E. of See also:Rome by the Via See also:Nomentana. It was a Latin town, but was by some considered to be See also:Sabine, and, like See also:Fidenae and Ficulea, was excluded from the first region by See also:Augustus, who made the Anio its See also:northern boundary. Nomentum received the civitas sine sujJragio after the last See also:war of the Latins against Rome (338 B.C.); in its municipal constitution the See also:chief See also:magistrate even in imperial times See also:bore the See also:title of See also:dictator. See also:Pliny and See also:Martial often praise the fertility of its neighbourhood. The site of the town is well protected by ravines except on the See also:east; no ancient remains exist in situ, but See also:inscriptions and other See also:relics have been found. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii. 68 sqq. (T.

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