Pirae
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Now unlocated, the "oppidum Pirae" is mentioned by Pliny the Elder and was located between Formiae and Minturnae. Local toponym suggests, according to A. Marzano, that this same place was later incorporated into a villa owned by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus. Marzano suggests that Pirae is in the vicinity of Torre Gianola.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438806
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- Pirae (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- oppidum Pirae (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Pirae located near Formiae (unspecified date range)
- Pirae located near Minturnae (unspecified date range)
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unlocated
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Pirae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Scauri?
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pirae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438806> [accessed: 04 December 2025]
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