09-24-2006, 08:57 PM
Well, 'Vallato' ought to be ablative, right, so it should be a place called Vallatum.
From Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer (available here), we have:
Vallatum, a town of the Catenates, in Vindelicia (the northern portion of Rhaetia), apparently to be identified with modern Manching -- see it in the SE corner here (distinct from the Vallato in Italy -- vallatum just means "walled (place)" so it's not surprising to see it cropping up in more than one place).
From Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer (available here), we have:
Vallatum, a town of the Catenates, in Vindelicia (the northern portion of Rhaetia), apparently to be identified with modern Manching -- see it in the SE corner here (distinct from the Vallato in Italy -- vallatum just means "walled (place)" so it's not surprising to see it cropping up in more than one place).
Dan Diffendale
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
