Suessa Pometia
Suessa Pometia (Greek: Σούεσσα Πωμεντιάνη; also Pometia) was an ancient city of Latium, which had ceased to exist in historical times. Although the modern city of Pomezia is named after it, the exact location of the ancient city is unknown.
It bordered on the
It is clear also that it survived its capture by Tarquin, and even appears again in the wars of the Republic with the Volscians, as a place of great power and importance. Livy indeed calls it a Colonia Latina, but we have no account of its having become such. It, however,
This time the blow seems to have been decisive; for the name of Suessa Pometia is never again mentioned in history, and all trace of it disappears. Pliny notices it among the cities which were in his time utterly extinct.[10] and no record seems to have been preserved even of its site. We are, however, distinctly told that the Pomptinus ager and the Pomptine tribe derived their appellation from this city,[11] and there can therefore be no doubt that it stood in that district or on the verge of it.
References
- ^ Aen. vi. 776
- ^ vii. Fr. 3
- ^ Livy i. 53; Strabo v. p. 231; Vict. Vir. Ill. 8
- ^ Liv. l. c.; Dionys. iv. 50; Cicero de Rep. ii. 2. 4; Pliny the Elder vii. 16. s. 15
- ^ Val. Antias, ap. Plin. iii. 5. s. 9
- ^ Tacitus Hist. iii. 72
- ^ Livy i. 41)
- ^ Liv. ii. 16, 17
- ^ Ibid. 25; Dionys. vi. 29
- ^ Pliny iii. 5. s. 9
- ^ Fest. s. v. Pomptina, p. 233
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