Collatia
Collatiawas an ancient town of centralItaly,c. 15 km northeast ofRomeby theVia Collatina.[1]
It appears in the legendary history of Rome as captured byKingTarquinius Priscus.Vergilspeaks of it as a Latin colony ofAlba Longa.In the time ofCiceroit had lost all importance;Strabonames it as a mere village, in private hands, while forPlinyit was one of the lost cities of Latium.[2][3]
According toLivy,it was taken, along with its population and surrounding land, from theSabinesby Tarquinius Priscus at the conclusion of hiswaragainst them. Livy records the wording of the form of the town's surrender.[4]The date of Tarquinius'triumphover the Sabines, according to theFasti Triumphales,which Livy says occurred shortly after the surrender of Collatia, is 13 September, 585 BC.
By 509 BC the town was governed by the RomanLucius Tarquinius Collatinus,who took his name from the town. It was the site of the rape ofLucretiain that year, andLivyrecords that the leaders of therevolutionwhich followed thereafter, gathered in Collatia to hear Lucretia's tale, then gathered the youth of Collatia to commence their revolution.[5]
The site is undoubtedly to be sought on the hill now occupied by the large medieval fortified farmhouse ofCastello di Lunghezzaimmediately to the south ofthe Anio,which occupies the site of the citadel joined by a narrow neck to the tableland to the southeast on which the city stood: this is protected by wide valleys on each side, and is isolated at the southeast end by a deep narrow valley enlarged by cutting.[3]
No remains are to be seen, but the site is admirably adapted for an ancient settlement. The road may be traced leading to the south end of this tableland, being identical with the modern road to Lunghezza for the middle part of its course only. The earlier identification withCastellaccio,c. 3.5 km to the southeast, is untenable.[6]
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[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Ashby, Thomas(1911). "Collatia".InChisholm, Hugh(ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 685–686.
- ^Quilici, L.; S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC; R. Talbert; S. Gillies; T. Elliott; J. Becker."Places: 422898 (Collatia)".Pleiades.RetrievedMarch 14,2013.
- ^Pliny the ElderNatural History3.68.5http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/240/333-341
- ^abAshby 1911,p. 685.
- ^Livy,Ab urbe condita,1:38
- ^Livy,Ab urbe condita,1.59
- ^Ashby 1911,pp. 685–686.
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