in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, midway almost between Rome and Preneste to the east, often mentioned in the history of Tarquin the Proud. Cinctus Gabinius denoted a particular way of tucking the gown, by drawing it forwards on the breast, and tying it into a knot; as the people of Gabii did at a solemn sacrifice, on the sudden attack of an enemy, in order to be fitter for action. In this manner the consul used to declare war, to sacrifice, and burn the spoils of the enemy; and then he was said to be praecinctus. The place now extinct.