City of the Volsci in Latium adiectum, perhaps to be located near Monte Giove. Home city of Coriolanus; C. is mentioned in connection with the events of 490 BC (Liv. 2,39; 3,71). Ceased to exist in the course of the 5th cent.; no traces left at the time of Pliny (HN 3,69).
S. Gsell, Top., Jahr, 180f.
A. Nibby, Analisi storico-topographico-antiquaria della carta de'dintorni di Roma 1, 1837, 512f.
Nissen 2, 631.
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Uggeri, Giovanni (Florence),
Brill’s New Pauly
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