a river of Italy, which running down a very steep channel from the mountains of Cruitinum, mixes with the Tiber at 40 miles from Rome; famous for the great slaughter of the Romans by the Gauls, under Brennus: hence Allienis dies, an unlucky day, (Virgil, Ovid, Lucan.) Our ancestors, says Cicero, deemed the day of the fight of Allia, more fatal than that of taking the city.