 The village of San Oreste, which stands on the hill above (a shoulder or offshoot of Soracte), and bears some traces of having been an ancient site, is thought by Antonio Nibby and George Dennis to occupy the position of the ancient town of Feronia.Pliny mentions a Lucus Feroniae among the colonies of the interior of Etruria and from the order in which he describes the towns of that province, there can be little doubt that he means the celebrated locality of the name in southern Etruria.But it is singular that Ptolemy, who also notices a Lucus Feroniae, to which he gives the title of a colonia, places it in the northwest extremity of Etruria, between the Arnus (modern Arno) and the Macra.