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Roman villa of Quintus Axius
42.4924° N, 12.8115° E
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The ancient Roman villa of Quintus Axius was a large rural villa rustica in the locality of Grotte di San Nicola, Colli sul Velino (Rieti, Lazio), Italy. It is one of the relatively few known farm-estates of ancient Roman Italy, especially of those that can be assigned to a known senator of the Axia gens family, friend of Varro and Cicero who wrote about his visit there.
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Roman conquest of Sabina
3rd century BCE
Construction of Curiano Trench (Marmore canal)
271 BCE
Regional villa expansion
2nd century BCE
Villa dated
1st century BCE
Cicero's visit
54 BCE
Continued occupation evidence
3rd–4th centuries
Opus sectile addition
3rd century
Early modern and modern finds
17th century
Ruins reported
1872
Groundwork finds
1902
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