or FORMIA, (anc. geog.), a maritime town of the Adjectum or New Latium, to the southeast of Caieta; built by the Lacedemonians, (Strabo) called originally Hormia, on account of its commodious harbour. An ancient municipium. Formian, the people; who were admitted to the liberty of the city the very year in which Alexandria was built; but not to the right of suffrage till a long time after the second Punic war, (Livy). Formia at this day lies in ruins, near a place now called Mola.