place
Cremera
the Cremera
A small river in Veientine territory north of Rome, where the Fabii built their stronghold and were destroyed.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 2 §49 Cremera
A stream in Veientine territory where the Fabii built their fort and met their destruction.
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §1 the Cremera
A stream in Veientine territory where, a generation earlier, the 306 Fabii and their dependents were ambushed and annihilated.
- The History of Rome, Book 6 §1 the Fabii were cut down at the Cremera
The stream where the gens Fabia's private army was annihilated by Veii (477 BC); its disaster shared the ill-omened day with the Allia.
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §38 Cremera
The stream where the gens Fabia perished, a disaster Macer linked to the ill-omened Faucian curia.