place
Allia
also: Alliensi
Reading notes
- The Histories §2.95 Allia
The river where in 390 BC the Gauls routed Rome before sacking the city; its anniversary, 18 July, was Rome's most ill-omened day—on which Vitellius tactlessly fixed his edict.
place
also: Alliensi
The river where in 390 BC the Gauls routed Rome before sacking the city; its anniversary, 18 July, was Rome's most ill-omened day—on which Vitellius tactlessly fixed his edict.