Foruli
Foruli was an ancient village ( vicus ) of the Sabines in Italy . It was on the site of today's Civitatomassa (municipality of Scoppito ).
location
Foruli lay at the sources of Aternus , four miles south of Amiternum , and belonged to its territory ( ager Amiterninus ). In terms of traffic, it was connected to Via Caecilia , a side street off Via Salaria . Emperor Claudius had the Via Claudia Nova built in AD 47 , connecting the place to the Via Valeria .
history
According to Livy , Hannibal is said to be in 211 BC BC Furoli have grazed on his campaign against Rome .
Epigraph
In addition to numerous Latin inscriptions, a cippus with dedicatory inscriptions in another Italian language has come down to us in Foruli . It could be the only surviving inscription in the Sabine language . However, this assignment is very controversial.
literature
- Jakob Weiss: Furoli 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 55.
- Giovanni Uggeri: Foruli. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Col. 602.
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL 9, 5959
- ↑ Livy 26:11, 11.
- ^ Helmut Rix : Sabellian texts . The texts of the Oscan, Umbrian and Southern Piken. Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-0853-7 , p. 4 .