(anc. greg.), a town of Latium, to the north of Alba; situated on an eminence, and therefore called supernum (Horace, Strabo). In sight of Rome, at about the distance of 100 stadia, or 12 miles. Adorned with plantations and princely edifices: The spot remarkable for the goodness of the soil, and its plenty of water, built by Telegonus, who flew his father Ulysses (Ovid, Horace); called the grandpa of Ulysses in Silius Italicus. A municipium (Cicero); the birth-place of the elder Cato (Nepos, Cicero). Now Frascati, in the Campania of Rome.