These represent it as a place of such opulence, that it was with the booty derived from thence that Tarquinius was able to commence and carry on the construction of the Capitoline temple at Rome.
[6] The name of Suessa Pometia is only once mentioned before this time, as the place where the sons of Ancus Marcius retired into exile on the accession of Servius.
[7] It is clear also that it survived its capture by Tarquin, and even appears again in the wars of the Republic with the Volscians, as a place of great power and importance.
[9] This time the blow seems to have been decisive; for the name of Suessa Pometia is never again mentioned in history, and all trace of it disappears.
We are, however, distinctly told that the Pomptinus ager and the Pomptine tribe derived their appellation from this city,[11] and there can therefore be no doubt that it stood in that district or on the verge of it.