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west edge of the Vclscian Mountains or Monti Lepini, above 'a precipitous cliff, with a splendid view over the Pomptine Marshes. It was a member of the Latin See also:

LEAGUE

League of 499 B.C., and became a Latin See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony in 492 B.C., as an important fortress guarding the Pomptine Marshes. It served in 199 as a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of detention for the Carthaginian hostages, and was captured and destroyed by See also:

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla's troops during the See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

WARS

wars at the end of 82 B.C. Some revival in prosperity took place later. From excavations begun in 1901 it seems clear that the remains now visible on the site are entirely See also:

ROMAN

Roman. The well-preserved walls are in the polygonal See also:

style, 11 m. in See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit, and are entirely See also:

EMBANKMENT

embankment walls, not See also:

STANDING

standing See also:

FREE

free above the See also:

INTERNAL

internal ground level. Remains of a massive See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, and of several gateways (notably the Porta Grande, defended by a tower) exist. Within, the remains of several buildings, including the substructions of two temples, one dedicated to See also:

JUNO

Juno See also:

LUCINA

Lucina, have been examined. At the See also:

FOOT

foot of the cliff are the picturesque ruins of the See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval town of Nainfa (12th-13th centuries) abandoned owing to the See also:

MALARIA

malaria. The remains of a See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

settlement, on the other See also:

hand, have been discovered on the See also:

mountain-See also:

side to the S.

E., above the 13th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

abbey of Valvisciolo, where there is a See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of terraces supported by walls of polygonal See also:

WORK

work, and approached by a road similarly supported. Here a quantity of primitive Latin pottery has been found, The See also:

NECROPOLIS

necropolis of this settlement Was probably the extensive one situated at Caracupa (8th-6th century B.C.), near the railway station of Sermoneta, which belongs also to the 8th-6th century B.C., terminating thus at the precise date at which the Roman See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Norba began to exist. See L. Savignioni and R. Mengarelli in Notizie degli scavi (1901), 514; (1903) 299, 289; (19o4) 407; and Atti del Congresso Storico (See also:

Rome, 1903), vol. V. (Archaeologia) 255. (T.

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