LUCUS FERONIAE

lucus feroniae, an ancient shrine in etruria. it was visited both by latins and sabines even in the time of tullus hostilius and was plundered by hannibal in 211 b.c. it was undoubtedly in the territory of capena (q.v.); but in imperial times it became an independent community receiving a colony of octavian's veterans (_colonia iulia felix lucoferensis_) and possessing an amphitheatre. its site has been disputed. some authorities place it on the colle civitucola (but see capena), others at the church of s. abbondio near rignano, others (and probably rightly) at nazzano, which was reached by a branch road from the via flaminia, where remains of a circular temple have been found. see e. bormann in _corp. inscr. lat._ xi. 569 sqq.; h. nissen, _italische landeskunde_, ii. 369 sqq. (t. as.)