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See also:ALLIA (mod. Fosso Bettina) , a small tributary of the See also:river See also:Tiber, joining it on the See also:left (See also:east) See also:bank, about 11 m . N. of See also:Rome . It gave its name to the terrible defeat which the See also:Romans suffered at the hands of the Gauls on the 18th of See also:July 390 B.C . See also:Livy (v . 37) and Diodorus (v . 114) differ with regard to the site of the See also:battle, the former putting it on the left, the latter on the right bank of the Tiber . See also:Mommsen and others support Diodorus, but the question still remains open . See T . See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii . 24 . |
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