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Cliternia

also: Cliternini, Cliternine

A small town of the Aequi in central Italy (Cliternia, in the upper Aniene/Sabine country), here named in Fam. 9.22 for its cheeses as a contrast to those of Lanuvium in Cicero's joke about decent and indecent words.

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Ad Familiares 9.22 letters · 1 mention

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