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LABICI , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Latium, the See also:modern See also:Monte Compatri, about 17 m . S.E. from See also:Rome, on the See also:northern slopes of the See also:Alban Hills, 1739 ft. above See also:sea-level . It occurs among the See also:thirty cities of the Latin See also:League, and it is said to have joined the See also:Aequi in 419 B.C. and to have been captured by the See also:Romans in 418 . After this it does not appear in See also:history, and in the See also:time of See also:Cicero and See also:Strabo was almost entirely deserted if not destroyed . Traces of its ancient walls have been noticed . Its See also:place was taken by the respublicaLavicanorum Quintanensium, the See also:post-station established in the See also:lower ground on the Via See also:Labicana (see LABICANA, VIA), a little S.W. of the modern See also:village of See also:Colonna, the site of which is attested by various See also:inscriptions and by the course of the road itself . See T . See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, i . 256 sqq . (T . |
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