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the Allia
also: river Allia
Small tributary of the Tiber about eleven miles from Rome where the Gauls crushed the Roman army in 390 BC; the day (dies Alliensis) became a byword for catastrophe.
Livy Entireplace
also: river Allia
Small tributary of the Tiber about eleven miles from Rome where the Gauls crushed the Roman army in 390 BC; the day (dies Alliensis) became a byword for catastrophe.