Cremera

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Crĕmĕra, ae, f.,

I a small river in Etruria, near Veii, made famous by the heroic death of the Fabii , now La Varca or Valca , Liv. 2, 49 fin. ; Ov. F. 2, 205; Gell. 17, 21, 13.—Poet.: Cremerae legio, i. e. the Fabii , Juv. 2, 155.

II —Hence, Crĕmĕrensis , e, adj., of Cremera : dies, the day of the disastrous conflict at Cremera (with Alliensis), Tac. H. 2, 91.

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