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Alba

Place

Civil War 1.15 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Domitius by himself had collected and brought from Alba about twenty cohorts, consisting of Marsi and Peligni, drawn from the neighbouring districts.”

Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.

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Civil War 1.15

Caesar

… Domitius by himself had collected and brought from Alba about twenty cohorts, consisting of Marsi and Peligni, drawn from the neighbouring districts.

Civil War 1.15

Civil War 1.24

Caesar

… L. Manlius the praetor flies from Alba with six cohorts, Rutilius Lupus the praetor from Tarracina with three. …

Civil War 1.24

Geographical record

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A town of the Aequi along the Marsic frontier where the Romans established a Latin colony in 304/3 B.C. Alba Fucens was a significant center of the middle republican period and became a place where Rome kept state prisoners, including Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, and Bituitus, king of the Arverni.

Pleiades 413005 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 E4 Alba Fucens

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Civil War 1.15 · Civil War 1.24

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