a town of the Sabines, in Italy, (Liv., Pliny); now extinct. The ruins are to be seen on the level ridge of a mountain, near St Vittorino, and the springs of the Aternus; not far from Aquila, which rose out of the ruins of Amiternum.

AMITTERE LEGEM TERRÆ, among Lawyers, a phrase importing the loss of liberty of swearing in any court: The punishment of a champion overcome or yielding in battle, of jurors found guilty in a writ of attaint, and of a person outlawed.