NOMENTUM (mod. Mentana)  , an ancient town of Italy, 14 in . N.E. of Rome by the Via Nomentana . It was a Latin town, but was by some considered to be Sabine, and, like Fidenae and Ficulea, was excluded from the first region by Augustus, who made the Anio its northern boundary . Nomentum received the civitas sine sujJragio after the last war of the Latins against Rome (338 B.C.); in its municipal constitution the chief magistrate even in imperial times bore the title of dictator . Pliny and Martial often praise the fertility of its neighbourhood . The site of the town is well protected by ravines except on the east; no ancient remains exist in situ, but inscriptions and other relics have been found . See T . Ashby in Papers of the British School at Rome, iii . 68 sqq . (T .