Labico is a comune (municipality) of about 6,200 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium , located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Rome .
3-409: Known as Lugnano until 1872, it takes its current name from the ancient Labicum , although it is more likely that the modern town was the location of Bolae , the city that fought Rome around the 5th century BC. This Lazio location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Labicum Labici or Labicum or Lavicum ( Latin : Lăbīcī or Lăbīcum )
6-506: The Romans in 418 BC. After this it does not appear in history, and in the time of Cicero and Strabo was almost entirely deserted if not destroyed. Traces of its ancient walls have been noticed. Its place was taken by the respublica Lavicanorum Quintanensium , the post-station established in the lower ground on the Via Labicana , a little SW of the modern village of Colonna , the site of which
9-612: Was an ancient city of Latium , in what is now central Italy , lying in the territory of the modern Monte Compatri , about 20 km SE from Rome , on the northern slopes of the Alban Hills . Exact location of the original city is however disputed. It occurs among the thirty cities of the Latin League , and it is said to have joined the Aequi and the Volsci in 419 BC and to have been stormed by
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