Editing Veii (section)

===Roman and later history===

The city was soon assimilated under Roman control and is termed "Roman Veii" as opposed to "Etruscan Veii" by scholarly literature. Under the empire the Romans called the city the ''Municipium Augustum Veiens''. The city never recovered its former wealth or its population after the Roman conquest. Nevertheless, after Rome's defeat in the [[battle of the Allia]], many Roman soldiers fled there, and a project was proposed for abandoning Rome for Veii; this project was successfully opposed by [[Marcus Furius Camillus|Camillus]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

The Romans built wealthy villas in the region and [[Livia]] had an estate there, according to [[Lives of the Twelve Caesars|Suetonius]].

Veii was eventually abandoned after Roman times, and everything of value or utility was removed by anyone with access to the site. Finally it was filled and smoothed for ploughland and was forgotten until its rediscovery in the 17th century by the antiquarian [[Raffaello Fabretti]].