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COLLATIA

Volume 5 · 89 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a town of the Sabines; thought to be distant between four or five miles out of Rome to the east; situated on an eminence (Virgil). Of this place was Tarquinius Collatinus, married to Lucretia, ravished by Sextus Tarquinius (Livy); situated on this or on the left side of the Anio (Pliny). Extant in Cicero's time, but in Strabo's day only a village; now no trace remains of it.—Another supposed Collatia of Apulia, near mount Garganus; because Pliny mentions the Collatini in Apulia, and Frontinus the Ager Collatinus.