Tibur

, an ancient town of the Sabines, about 20 miles north of Rome, built, as some say, by Tiburtus the son of Amphiaraus. It was watered by the Anio, and Hercules was the chief deity of the place, from which circumstance it has been called Herculei muri . In the neighbourhood, the Romans, on account of the salubrity of the air, had their several villas where they retired; and there also Horace had his favourite country seat, though some place it nine miles higher. Strabo , bk. 5 .— Cicero , bk. 2 , Orations , ch. 65 .— Suet on i us , Caligula , ch. 21 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 630 .— Horace , bk. 3 , ode 4, . — Ovid , Fasti , bk. 6 , li. 61 , .