Note 2 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

: qui—armati? “to wait for you arms near Forum Amelium.” ad before the name of towns denotes (1) direction; (2) proximity, as in this passage. Towns were called Fora, by the Romans, where the praetor held his circuits for administering justice and where markets were established. The town mentioned here was in Etruria between the Armenta (Fiora) and Marta, not from the sea. It is now called Monte Alto. It derived its name from one Aurelius, who built the Via Aurelia from Rome to Pisa.