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Marcius mons (to Markion oros) was, according to Plutarch, the name
of the place which was the scene of a great defeat of the Volscians and Latins
by Camillus in the year after the taking of Rome by the Gauls B.C. 389. (Plut.
Camill. 33, 34.) Diodorus, who calls it simply Marcius or Marcium (to kaloumenon
Markion, xiv. 107), tells us it was 200 stadia from Rome; and Livy, who writes
the name ad Mecium, says it was near Lanuvium. (Liv. vi. 2.) The exact site cannot
be determined. Some of the older topographers speak of a hill called Colle Marzo,
but no such place is found on modern maps; and Gell suggests the Colle di Due
Torri as the most probable locality. (Gell, Top. of Rome, p. 311.)
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