Trebula Suffenas


Trebula or Trebula Suffenas or Trebula Suffenes, was an ancient city of the Sabines, one of two bearing the name Trebula - Pliny being the only author who mentions both places: Trebulani qui cognominantur Mutuscaei, et qui Suffenates.

Location

Its site is uncertain. Abbé Capmartin De Chaupy would place it at Rocca Sinibalda, in the valley of the Turano, but this is mere conjecture. Giuseppe Antonio Guattani on the other hand fixes it on a hill near Stroncone, between Rieti and Terni, where there are said to be distinct traces of an ancient town. The editors of Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer place it north of Reate at Monte Leone della Leonessa.; the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World place it near Passo della Fortuna, a frazione of Ciciliano. It is probable that the Tribula of Dionysius, mentioned by him among the towns assigned by Varro to the Aborigines may be the same with the Trebula Suffenas of Pliny. In this case we know that it could not be far from Reate.
The Tabula Peutingeriana depicts Treblis in sector 5B1, on the route between Praeneste and Carsulis.