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Porta Capena

the Capene gate

also: porta Capena, the Capene gate

A gate in the Servian Wall of Rome at the start of the Via Appia, the point from which travellers from the south entered the city. Cicero passed through it on his triumphal return from exile in September 57 BC (Att. 4.1.5).

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