Aquileia, vel Aquilegia, An auncient citie in the part of Italy called Forum lulij, or Fricul: sometime of such estimation, that therein was kept the great Mart of all Europe: And the Emperour Octauian, delighted principally to repayre thither often. Afterward it was destroyed by the Hunnes, and the inhabitauntes fledde thence, and were the first that began to builde the citie of Venice. But now it is so simple, that none dwell there but fishers, and a fewe shepeheardes, and is called Algar.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăquĭlēia, ae, f., = *)akulhi(a, a town in Upper Italy, still called Aquileia, not far from Tergeste, built by the Romans after the second Punic war, as a protection against the neighboring tribes, Liv. 40, 34; Caes. B. G. 1, 10; Mart. 4, 25; Plin. 3, 18, 22, 127; Mel. 2, 4, 3; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 74 sq.— Hence, Ăquĭlēiensis, adj.: ager, Liv. 39, 45; and Ăquĭlēienses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Aquileia, id. 43, 17.