Lanuvium

Lanuvium, modern Lanuvio, is an ancient city of Latium vetus, some 32 kilometres (20 mi) southeast of Rome, a little southwest of the Via Appia.

In imperial times the city's chief magistrate and municipal council kept the titles of dictator and senatus respectively.

36), the political agitator Titus Annius Milo, who was convicted for the murder of Clodius (Cic.

Remains of the ancient theatre and of the city walls exist in the modern town, and above it is an area surrounded by a portico, in opus reticulatum, upon the north side of which is a rectangular building in opus quadratum, probably connected with the temple of Juno where archaic decorative terracottas artifacts have been found.

The neighborhood, which is now covered with vineyards, contains the remains of many Roman villas, one of which is traditionally attributed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius.

Warrior tomb from Lanuvium (5th century BC), located in the Baths of Diocletian Museum, Rome
Silver denarius struck by L. Papius Celsus in Rome 45 BC. The obverse depicts the Juno Sospita whose main center of worshipping was Lanuvium and the reverse depicts a founder myth. When a fire broke out spontaneously in the forest, a wolf brought some dry wood in his mouth and threw it upon the fire, and an eagle fanned the flame with the motion of his wings. But a fox, after wetting his tail in the river, was trying to put it out. Wolf and eagle got the upper hand and the fox went away. Bronze monuments of these animals are supposed to stand in the forum of Lanuvium.
The portico of the Sanctuary of Juno Sospita
Terracotta antefix with the head of a Silenus ; c. 500–490 BC., from the Baths of Diocletian at Lanuvium