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COLLATIA

Volume 17 · 89 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a town of the Sabines, thought to be distant between four or five miles from 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 of it remains.—Another supposed Collatia of Apulia, near Mount Garanus, because Pliny mentions the Collatini in Apulia, and Frontinus the Agri Collatinus.