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Hippius, a friend of Cicero's, whom the orator represents as particularly deserving of
his esteem. He therefore recommended the son of Hippius, C. Valgius Hippianus,
who had been adopted by a member of the Valgian family, and had purchased a portion
of the demesne of Fregellae, to the magistrates of that town (Cic. ad Fam. xiii.
76). This letter conveys indirectly some curious information. Fregellae, once
the chief town of a considerable district, became a Roman colony in B. C. 328
(Liv. viii. 22; Strab. v.). In B. C. 122-121 it was destroyed by the praetor,
L. Opimius (Rhet. ad Herenn. iv. 9; Vell. ii. 6; Val. Max. ii. 8); and in the
age of Augustus it was little more than an open village (Strab. l. c.; Plin. H.
N. iii. 5). But Cicero's letter (l. c.) shows that it retained its demesne-land
and its full complement of local magistrates.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Jan 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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