Ariminum (modern Rimini), the Roman colony of 268 BC on the Adriatic coast at the head of the via Flaminia; a city of the Latin-right and frontier post of pre-Caesarian Italy. Cicero's correspondence repeatedly notes its strategic role on the road north (Ad Att. 5.4 etc.); the lex Cornelia of 81 BC associated its juridical rights with the lower-grade Latin colonies (Pro Caec. 102; Verr. 2.1.36; Phil. 12.23).