Reāte

, a pleasant town of Umbria, built, as some suppose, before the Trojan war, about 15 miles from Fanum Vacunæ, near the lake Velinus. Cybele was the chief deity of the place. It was famous for its a es. Strabo , bk. 5 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 .— Varro , de Re Rustic a , bk. 1 .— Livy , bk. 25 , ch. 7 ; bk. 26 , ch. 11 ; bk. 28 , ch. 45 .— Cicero , Against Cat i line , bk. 3 , ch. 2 ; de Natura Deorum , bk. 2 , ch. 2 .