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See also:SUTRI (anc. Sutrium) , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Rome, 4 M. W.N.W. of the railway station of Capranica, which is 36 m. from Rome; 955 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901), 2701. The town is picturesquely situated on a narrow See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, surrounded by ravines, a narrow See also:neck on the See also:west alone connecting it with the surrounding See also:country. There are some remains of the See also:ancient See also:city walls of rectangular blocks of tufa on the See also:southern See also:side of the town, and some See also:rock-cut sewers in the cliffs below them. The See also:cathedral is See also:modern, but the See also:crypt, with twenty columns, is old, and the campanile See also:dates from the 13th See also:century. In the cliffs opposite the town on the See also:south is the rock-cut See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Madonna del Parto, See also:developed, no doubt, out of an See also:Etruscan See also:tomb, of which there are many here; and See also:close by is a rock-hewn See also:amphitheatre of the See also:Roman See also:period, with axes of 55 and 44 yds., now most picturesque.
The position of Sutri was important, commanding as it did the road into See also:Etruria, the later Via See also:Cassia; and it is spoken of by See also:Livy as one of the keys Of Etruria, Nepet being the other. It came into the hands of Rome after the fall of See also:Veii, and a Latin See also:colony was founded there; it was lost again in 386, but was recovered and recolonized in 383 "(?). It was besieged by the Etruscans in 311—10 s.c., but not taken. With Nepet and ten other Latin colonies it refused further help in the Hannibalic See also:War in 209 B.C. Its importance as a fortress explains, according to See also:Festus, the See also:- PROVERB (Lat. proverbium, from pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the Greek equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort)
proverb Sutrium ire, of one who goes on important business, as it occurs in See also:Plautus. It is mentioned in the war of 41 B.c., and received a colony of veterans under the triumviri (Colonia coniuncta Julia Sutrina). See also:Inscriptions show that it was a See also:place of some importance under the See also:empire, and it is mentioned as occupied by the See also:Lombards.
See G. See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, i. 62 (See also:London, 1883). (T.
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