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way are Interamna, note Spoletium, note Asisium, note and Camerta, situated in the mountains which bound Picenum. On the other side note are Ameria, note Tuder, note a well-fortified city, Hispellum, note and Iguvium, note near to the passes of the mountain. The whole of this country is fertile, but rather too mountainous, and producing more rye note than wheat for the food of the inhabitants. The next district, Sabina, is mountainous, and borders on Tyrrhenia in like manner. The parts of Latium which border on these districts and the Apennines are very rugged. These two nations note commence from the Tiber and Tyrrhenia, and extend as far as the Apennines which advance obliquely towards the Adriatic: Ombrica extends, as we have said, beyond as far as the sea. We have now sufficiently described the Ombrici.
THE Sabini occupy a narrow country, its length from the Tiber and the small city of Nomentum note to the Vestini being 1000 stadia. They have but few cities, and these have suffered severely in their continual wars [with the Romans]. Such are Amiternum note and Reate, note which is near to the village of Interocrea note and the cold waters at Cotyliae, which are taken by patients, both as drink and as baths, for the cure of various maladies. The rocks of Foruli, note likewise, belong to the Sabini; fitted rather for rebellion than peaceable habitation. Cures is now a small village, although formerly a famous city: whence came Titus Tatius and Numa Pompilius, kings of Rome. From this place is derived the name of Quirites, which the orators give to the Romans when they address the people. Trebula, note Eretum, note and other similar places, must
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].
