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The Villa dei Quintili (Villa of the Quintilii) is an ancient Roman villa beyond the fifth milestone along the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome. It was built by the rich and cultured brothers Quintilius (consuls in 151 AD).
But the emperor Commodus coveted the villa strongly enough to put to death its owners in 182 and confiscate it for himself.
The ruins of this villa suburbana are of such an extent that when they were first excavated, the site was called Roma Vecchia ("Old Rome") by the locals, as they occupied too great a ground, it seemed, to have been anything less than a town.