Trebula (

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: ) or Trebula Suffenas or Trebula Suffenes, was an ancient city of the

Sabines The Sabines (; lat, Sabini; it, Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. The Sabines di ...

, one of two bearing the name Trebula (the other being

Trebula Mutusca Trebula Mutusca (also spelled Trebula Mutuesca or simply Mutuscae) was an ancient city of the Sabines. It is located at Monteleone Sabino, a village about 3 km to the east of the Via Salaria. Pliny mentions both Sabine cities named Trebula: ...

) – Pliny being the only author who mentions both places: ''Trebulani qui cognominantur Mutuscaei, et qui Suffenates''.

Location

Its site is most likely be at or near Ciciliano, where most of the inscriptions referring to the city have been found, and possibly near Passo della Fortuna, a ''frazione'' of Ciciliano. It is probable that the Tribula () of

Dionysius The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

, mentioned by him among the towns assigned by

Varro Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Vergil and Cicero). He is sometimes calle ...

to the Aborigines (Dionys. i. 14) is the same as the Trebula Suffenas of Pliny. In this case we know that it could not be far from Reate. The

Tabula Peutingeriana ' (Latin for "The Peutinger Map"), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated ' (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the '' cursus publicus'', the road network of the Roman Empire. The map is a 13th-ce ...

depicts Treblis in sector 5B1, on the route between

Praeneste Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; grc, Πραίνεστος, ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Pre ...

and Carsulis.Peutinger map as a seamless whole, in color, with overlaid layers, by Richard Talbert
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References

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