Battle of The Colline Gate

The Battle of the Colline Gate can refer to any of the following battles:


  • Battle of the Colline Gate (477 BC) - consul Gaius Horatius Pulvillus defeats the Etruscans
  • Battle of the Colline Gate (82 BC) - Sulla secured control of Rome following the civil war against the Populares.

Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or gate:

    I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)