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1 472 B.C.
2 Megara in Greece as contrasted with Hyblaean Megara in Sicily.
3 The traditional date is 477 B.C.
4 This is one of the most famous of the legends of early Roman history. Diodorus gives the sensible account that this was a battle between the Romans and the Etruscans for the control of the right bank of the Tiber, and many Fabii fell in the struggle. But in some way the Fabian gens dressed up the story so that in later tradition only Fabii and their clients were fighting Rome's battle for "bridgeheads" on the Tiber (cp. Dionysius Hal. 9.19-21; Livy 2.50).
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AGRIGENTUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CRE´MERA
- Smith's Bio, Hieron I.
- Smith's Bio, Lana'tus
- Smith's Bio, Pulvillus
- Smith's Bio, Theron
- Smith's Bio, Thrasydaeus
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- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 50