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LUCUS FERONIAE

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LUCUS FERONIAE  , an

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ancient
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shrine in
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Etruria . It was visited both by Latins and Sabines even in the
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time of Tullus Hostilius and was plundered by
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Hannibal in 211 B.C . It was undoubtedly in the territory of
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Capena (q.v.); but in imperial times it became an
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independent community receiving a
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colony of Octavian's veterans (Colonia Iulia
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felix Lucoferensis) and possessing an
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amphitheatre . Its site has been disputed . Some authorities
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place it on the Colle Civitucola (but see CAPENA), others at the
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church of S . Abbondio near Rignano, others (and probably rightly) at Nazzano, which was reached by a
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branch road from the Via
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Flaminia, where remains of a circular
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temple have been found . See E . Bormann in Corp . Inscr .
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Lat. xi . 569 sqq.; H . Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, ii .

369 sqq . (T .

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