TREBA
TREBA or
TRE´BIA.
1.
(Eth.
Trebias, ātis:
Trevi), a municipal town of Umbria, situated at the western foot of the Apennines, between Fulginium and the sources of the Clitumnus, about 4 miles from the latter.
It is mentioned by Pliny among the municipal cities of Umbria, and its name is found in an inscription among the “xv Popnli Umbriae:” in both these authorities the name of the people is written Trebiates. The Jerusalem Itinerary, which places it on the Via Flaminia, 4 miles from Sacraria (at the sources of the Clitumnus) and 5 from Fulginium, writes the name Trevis, thus approximating closely to the modern name of
Trevi. The modern town is still a considerable place standing on a hill which rises abruptly from the valley of the Clitumnus. (
Plin. Nat. 3.14. s. 19;
Itin. Hier. p. 613; Orell.
Inscr. 98).
2.
(
Τρήβα, Ptol.: Eth.
Trebanus:
Trevi), a city of Latium. in the upper valley of the Anio, about 5 miles from the sources of that river and 10 above
Subiaco. It is mentioned both by Pliny and Ptolemy, as well as by Frontinus, who calls it Treba Augusta (
Plin. Nat. 3.5. s. 9;
Ptol. 3.1.62; Frontin.
de Aquaed. 93); and in an inscription, which proves it to have been a town of municipal rank under the Roman Empire. (Orell.
Inscr. 4101.)
But its name is not mentioned in history, and it was apparently never a place of importance, for which its secluded position is alone sufficient to account.
The ancient name and site are retained by the modern village of
Trevi, a poor place, surrounded on all sides by lofty mountains. [
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