Tarracina

Place

Civil War 1.24 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… L. Manlius the praetor flies from Alba with six cohorts, Rutilius Lupus the praetor from Tarracina with three. …”

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

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Geographical record

Pleiades representative point · precise

A strategic Volscian city that had come under Roman control by 509 B.C.; a Roman citizen colony was established there in 329 B.C. The site is particularly notable for the remains of the terraced sanctuary of Iuppiter Anxur.

Pleiades 433143 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 D3 Tarracina(e)/Anxur

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