Præneste

, a town of Latium, about 21 miles from Rome, built by Telegonus son of Uly es and Circe, or, according to others, by Cæculus the son of Vulcan. There was a celebrated temple of Fortune there, with two famous images, as also an oracle, which was long in great repute. Cicero , De Div in at i one , bk. 2 , ch. 41 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 680 .— Horace , bk. 3 , ode 4.— Statius , bk. 1 , Sylvæ , poem 3, li. 80 .