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Velletri (Italian: [velˈleːtri]; Latin:
Velitrae; Volscian: Velester) is an
Italian comune in the
Metropolitan City of Rome,
approximately 40 km to the...
- great-great
grandfather of the
Emperors Caligula and Nero.
Hailing from
Velitrae, he was a
descendant of an old and
wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian...
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Other early colonies were
established at
Signia in the 6th
century BC,
Velitrae and
Norba in the 5th
century BC, and Ostia, Antium, and
Tarracina in the...
- of
Circeii and
Velitrae in the war
against Rome. In Rome, on the
advice of the senate, the
tribes unanimously declared war on
Velitrae after five commissioners...
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indications that the
Octavian family was in days of old a
distinguished one at
Velitrae; for not only was a
street in the most
frequented part of town long ago...
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praetor in 61 BC and then
Macedonian governor. Her
family lived close to
Velitrae,
ancestral home of the Octavii. They had two children:
Octavia Minor, born...
- to
Oscan and Umbrian.
Volscian is
attested in an
inscription found in
Velitrae (Velletri),
dating probably from
early in the 3rd
century BC; it is cut...
- his mother's ********ination.
Records of Acte's
household and
estates in
Velitrae,
Puteoli and
Sardinia attest to
considerable wealth, ac****ulated while...
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senate in 27 BC. The
Octavii originally came from the
Volscian town of
Velitrae, in the
Alban Hills. The
historian Suetonius writes,
There are many indications...
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celebrated in
parts of Italy;
Luperci are
attested by
inscriptions at
Velitrae, Praeneste,
Nemausus (modern Nîmes) and elsewhere. The
ancient cult of...
