Region in Latium between mons Albanus and the coast of the mare Tyrrhenum. Its name is derived from the town of Pometia (Cic. Rep. 2,44; Liv. 2,16,8; 17,5 f.; 25,6; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4,50; 6,29), which it has not been possible to localize. Probably towards the end of the 6th cent. BC, the ager Pomptinus (AP) came into the possession of the neighbouring Volsci. Rome's reaction to this was -- supposedly as early as 492 BC -- the foundation of the colony of Norba (Liv. 2,34,6; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 7,13) on the slopes of the Monti Lepini [1]. As the Volsci we…
Ager Pomptinus(558 words)
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Sonnabend, Holger (Stuttgart), “Ager Pomptinus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 02 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e107750>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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