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See also:SATRICUM (mod. See also:Conca)
, an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Latium, situated some 30 M. to the S.E. of See also:Rome, in a See also:low-lying region to the S. of the See also:Alban Hills, to the N.W. of the Pomptine Marshes
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It was accessible See also:direct from Rome by a road See also:running more or less parallel to the Via See also:Appia, to the S.W. of it
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It is said to have been an Alban See also:colony: it was a member of the Latin See also:league of 499 B.C. and became Volscian in 488
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It was several times won and lost by the See also:Romans, and twice destroyed by See also:fire
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After 346 B.C. we hear of it only in connexion with the See also:temple of Mater Matuta
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A
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Nibby (Analisi della carta dei dintorni di See also:Roma, Rome, 1848, iii
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64) was the first to See also:fix the site upon the Iow See also: Another See also:Satricum See also:lay on the right See also:bank of the Liris, not far from Arpinum . See H . Graillot in Melanges de l'ecole frangaise de Rome (1896), 131; and Notizie degli scavi (1896), passim . (T . |
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