Trebula
- I A town in Campania, near Suessula and Saticula, now Maddaloni, Liv. 23, 39, 6.
- —Hence, Trēbŭlānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Trebula, Trebulan: ager, Liv. 10, 1, 2: vina, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 69. —Subst.: Trēbŭlānum, i, n., an estate near Trebula, Cic. Att. 5, 2, 1; 5, 3, 1; 7, 2, 2.—In plur.: Trēbŭlāni, ōrum, m., with the addition Balinienses, the inhabitants of Trebula, the Trebulans, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 64.—
- II A town in the Sabine territory, Trebula Mutusca, now Monte Leone, Jul. Obs. 102; also called Trebula, Mart. 5, 71, 1; and Mutusca, Verg. A. 7, 711. The inhabitants are called Trēbŭlāni Mutuscaei, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107. — Hence, Trebulanus ager, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66; id. Fam. 11, 27, 3.—
- III Another town in the Sabine territory, the inhabitants of which are called Trebulani Suffenates, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107.
- 1. stad in het Sabijnse gebied, ook Mutu(e)sca, nu Monteleone Sabino;
- 2. stad in Campanië, nu Treglia; / adj. Trebulānus, a, um; subst. Trebulānum, ī n (vul aan: praedium) landgoed bij Trebula.
Dicti homines de cetero piscare
poterunt in riparia dictæ villæ ad pannerium, Trebulam, lineam et nassas
tantummodo. Vide Trubla.TREBULA (Τρήβουλα: Eth. Trebulanus: Treglia), a city of Campania, situated in the district N. of the Vulturnus, in the mountain tract which extends from near Cajazzo (Calatia) to the Via Latina. Pliny terms the citizens Trebulani cognomine Balinienses,p robably to distinguish them from those of the two cities of the same name among the Sabines (Plin. Nat. 3.5. s. 9); but the Campanian town seems to have been the most considerable of the three, and is termed simply Trebula by Ptolemy, as well as by Livy. The first mention of the name occurs in B.C. 303, when we are told that the Trebulani received the Roman franchise at the same time with the Arpinates. (Liv. 10.1.) There seems no doubt that the Campanian city is here meant: and this is quite certain in regard to the next notice in Livy, where he tells us that the three cities of Compulteria, Trebula, and Saticula, which had revolted to Hannibal, were recovered by Fabius in B.C. 215. (Id. 23.39.) The Trebulanus ageri s mentioned also by Cicero among the fertile districts of Campania, which Rullus proposed to distribute among the poorer Roman citizens (Cic. de Leg. Agr. 2.2. 5); and we learn from Pliny that it was noted for its wines, which had rapidly risen in estimation in his day. (Plin. Nat. 14.6. s. 8.) The Liber Coloniarum also mentions Trebula among the municipal towns of Campania. It appears to have received a fresh body of settlers under Augustus, but without attaining the rank of a colony. (Lib. Col. p. 238; Plin. Nat. 3.5. s. 9; Ptol. 3.1.68.) The site of Trebula, which was erroneously fixed by Cluverius and some local writers to the S. of the Vulturnus, appears to be correctly identified by local antiquarians with a place called Treglia or Tregghia, at the foot of the Pizzo S. Salvatore, about 6 miles N. of the Vulturnus and 8 NE. of Capua. There are said to be considerable ancient remains upon the spot, which together with the resemblance of name would seem clearly to establish the position of the ancient city. (Romanelli, vol. iii. pp. 575, 576; Trutta, Antichità Allifane. Diss. xxiii; Abeken, Mittel-ltalien, p. 99.)
[E.H.B]TREBULA (Τρήβουλα: Eth. Trebulanus), was the name of two cities or towns of the Sabines, apparently at no great distance from one another, which were called for the sake of distinction Trebula Mutusca and Trebula Suffenas.
1.TREBULA MUTUSCA, called by Virgil simply MUTUSCAE while the full name is preserved to us by Pliny, the only author who mentions both places ( Trebulani qui cognominantur Mutuscaei, et qui Suffenates,Plin. Nat. 6.12. s. 17). Its site is clearly fixed at Monte Leone, sometimes called Monte Leone della Sabina, a village about 2 miles on the right of the Via Salaria, between Osteria Nuova and Poggio S. Lorenzo. Here there are considerable ruins, including those of a theatre, of thermae or baths, and portions of the ancient pavement. Several inscriptions have also been found here, some of which have the name of the people, Plebs Trebulana,Trebulani Mutuscani,a nd Trebulani Mut.,s o that no doubt can remain of their attribution. (Chaupy, Maison d'Horace, vol. iii. pp. 93--96; Orell. Inscr. 923, 3442, 3963.) As this seems to have been much the most considerable place of the two, it is probably that meant by Strabo, who mentions Trebula without any distinctive adjunct but in conjunction with Ereturn (Strab. 5. p. 228). The Liber Coloniarumn also mentions a Tribule, municipium( p. 258) which is probably the same place. Martial also alludes to Trebula as situated among cold and damp mountain valleys (5.72), but it is not certain which of the two places he here refers to. Virgil speaks of Mutusca as abounding in olives ( oliviferaeque Mutuscae, Aen. 7.711), which is still the case with the neighbourhood of Monte Leone, and a village near it bears in consequence the name of Oliveto.
2.TREBULA SUFFENAS, the name of which is known only from Piny, is of very uncertain site. Chaupy would place it at Rocca Sinibaldi, in the valley of the Turano, but this is mere conjecture. Guattani on the other hand fixes it on a hill near Stroncone, between Rieti and Terni, where there are said to be distinct traces of an ancient town. (Chaupy, l. c.; Guattani Mon. della Sabina, vol. 1. p. 190.) It is probable that the Tribula (Τρίβολα) of Dionysius, mentioned by him among the towns assigned by Varro to the Aborigines (Dionys. 1.14) may be the same with the Trebula Suffenas of Pliny. In this case we know that it could not be far from Reate. [E.H.B]
(1) Now Treglia; a town in Samnium situated in the southeastern part of the mountains of Cajazzo.
(2) Mutusca, a town of the Sabines, of uncertain site.