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CRUSTUMERIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 561 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRUSTUMERIUM  , an

ancient
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town of
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Latium, on the edge of the Sabine territory, near the headwaters of the Allia, not far from the Tiber . It appears several times in the early
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history of Rome, but was conquered in 500 B.C. according to Livy ii . 19, the tribus Crustumina [or Crustumina] being formed in 471 B.C . Pliny mentions it among the lost cities of Latium, but the name clung to the
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district, the fertility of which remained famous . No remains of it exist, and its exact site is uncertain . See T . Ashby in Papers of the
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British School at Rome, iii . 5o .

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