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{{Short description|Mythical son of Amphiaraus}}
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There are two '''Catilli''' in [[Roman mythology|Roman legend]]:

* '''Catillus the Arcadian''', son of [[Amphiaraus]].
* '''Catillus''', his son.

Catillus the Arcadian and his sons Catillus, Coras, and Tiburtus  escaped the mass killing at [[Thebes (Greece)|Thebes]] and arrived at the [[Aniene]] Plateau. They drove away the [[Sicily|Sicilians]] who lived there and founded a city named [[Tivoli, Italy|Tibur]] (now Tivoli) in honor of Tiburtus.

In Book VII of [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', the twin brothers, Catillus and Coras, leave [[Tivoli, Italy|Tibur]] and head for [[Latium]] to fight against [[Aeneas]] and the [[Troy|Trojans]] as an ally of [[Turnus]].

[[Horace]] (''Odes'' 18.2) records the name as "Cātilus"; Virgil (''Aeneid'' 7.672) and [[Silius Italicus]] as "Cātillus", and [[Statius]] as "Catillus".<ref name=NH230>Nisbet & Hubbard (1970), ''A Commentary on Horace Odes Book 1'', p. 230.</ref> There was a {{lang|la|mons Catilli}} in Tibur, presumably the modern Monte Catillo.<ref name=NH230 />

==References==
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* {{cite book| author = Virgil|author2=Allen Mandelbaum| title = The Aeneid of Virgil| year = 1981| publisher = Random House Digital, Inc.| isbn = 978-0-553-21041-5| page = 184 }}

[[Category:Characters in the Aeneid]]
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