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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTEMNAE (
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Lat. ante amnem, sc. Anienem; Varro, Ling. Lat. v. 28)
  , an ancient
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village of
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Latium, situated on the W. of the Via
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Salaria, 2 M . N. of Rome, where the Anio falls into the Tiber . It is said to have been conquered by
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Romulus after the rape of the Sabine
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women, and to have assisted the Tarquins . Certainly it soon lost its independence, and in Strabo's time was a mere village . The site is one of
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great strength, and is now occupied by a fort, in the construction of which traces of the
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outer walls and of huts, and several wells and a cistern, all belonging to the
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primitive village, were discovered, and also the remains of a
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villa of the end of the Republic . See T . Ashby in Papers of the
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British School at Rome, iii . 14 .

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