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BOVILLAE , an ancient town of Latium, a station on the Via Appia (which in 293 B.C. was already paved to this point),r1 m. S.E. of Rome. It was a colony of Alba Longa, and appears as one of the thirty cities of the Latin league; after the destruction of Alba Longa the sacra were, it was held, transferred to Bovillae, including the cult of Vesta (in inscriptions virgines Vestales Albanae are mentioned, and the inhabitants of Bovillae are always spoken of as Albani Longani Bovillenses) and that of the gens Julia. The existence of this hereditary worship led to an increase in its importance when the Julian house
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worship was dedicated anew,' and yearly games in the circus instituted, probably under the charge of the sodales Augustales, whose official calendar has been found here. In history Bovillae appears as the scene of the quarrel between Milo and Clodius, in which the latter, whose villa lay above the town on the left of the Via Appia, was killed. The site is not naturally strong, and remains of early fortifications cannot be traced. It may be that Bovillae took the place of Alba Longa as a local centre after the destruction of the latter by Rome, which would explain the deliberate choice of a strategically weak position. Remains of buildings of the imperial periodthe circus , a small theatre, and edifices probably connected with thepost-stationmay still be seen on the south
See L. Canina, Via Appia (Rome, 1853), i. 202 seq.; T. Ashby
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