Antium

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §33 Antium

  The chief coastal city of the Antiate Volsci, base of their war on Rome.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §1 Antium

  A coastal Volscian city south of Rome (modern Anzio), recently captured; the senate plants a colony there to settle the land-hungry commons.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §56 Antium

  The chief city of the Volsci on the coast south of Rome, the head of their war effort.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §45 Antium

  The chief Volscian city on the coast, whose townsmen cut down the Gauls scattered after Camillus's night attack.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §6 the people of Antium

  The chief Volscian city on the coast, the head of the Volscian cause and origin of the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §27 Antium

  The chief Volscian coastal town, fount of the agitation against Rome and source of Satricum's colonists.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §1 Antium

  A Volscian coastal city, famous for its fleet; later a Roman colony forbidden the sea.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Antium

  A coastal town of Latium (modern Anzio).

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §38 Antium

  A coastal colony of Latium; one of only two whose exemption from the levy was upheld.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §1 Antium

  The Latian coastal town (modern Anzio) where mice gnawed a golden crown among the prodigies.

• The History of Rome, Book 43 §6 Antium

  A coastal town of Latium where Lucretius built an aqueduct and adorned a shrine from his Greek plunder.