Note 066
From Chapter 14 of the Decline & Fall

Maxentius . . . tandem urbe in 'Saxa Rubra', millia ferme novem aegerrime progressus. Aurelius Victor. [de Caesar. 40]. See Cellarius Geograph Antiq tom. i. p. 463.

Saxa Rubra was in the neighbourhood of the Cremera, a trifling rivulet, illustrated by the valour and glorious death of the three hundred Fabii.

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