Road station
Ereto
(near Casacotta) (Barrington) (bei La Fiora, nörd. v. h. Rotondo) (Miller) · Grotta Marozza?
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Ereto is Eretum, a Sabine village above the Tiber where, as the Greek geographer Strabo notes, the Via Nomentana joined the Via Salaria, some eighteen Roman miles, about twenty-seven kilometres, from Rome. In the legends of early Rome it was a frontier town fought over again and again; later it was just a road station, and ancient writers even derived its name from the goddess Hera. On the map the road from Nomentum is only hinted at by a little hook that ends in nothing.