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ANIO

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(Cicero, Horace, Priscian); ANIEN, (Statius); now the Teverone: a river of Italy, which falls into the Tiber, three miles to the north of Rome, not far from Antemnae. It rises in a mountain near Treba, (Pliny); and, running through the country of the Equi, or Æqui, it afterwards separated the Latins from the Sabines; but nearer its mouth, or confluence, it had the Sabines on each side. It forms three beautiful lakes in its course, (Pliny). In the territories of Tibur it falls from a great height, and there forms a very rapid cataract; hence the epithet praepes, and hence the stream caused by its fall, (Horace). Anienus is the epithet formed from it, (Virgil, Propertius): Anienus is also the god of the river, (Propertius, Statius).