Ferentina

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

Fĕrentīna Aqua,

a small river in the neighborhood of Alba Longa, near the modern Marino , at the source of which there was a grove sacred to the deity Ferentina (perh. the same as Diana); here the Latini used to hold their general assemblies: ad caput aquae Ferentinae, Liv. 1, 51, 9; for which: ad caput Ferentinae, Cinc. ap. Fest. p. 241, 12 Müll. N. cr.; and: ad caput Ferentinum, Liv. 2, 38; cf.: ut ad lucum Ferentinae conveniant, id. 1, 50; so id. 1, 52, 5; 7, 25, 5. (This place is different from Ferentinum, the city of the Hernici; see the foll. art.).

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