CURES, a Sabine town between the left bank of the Tiber and the Via Salaria, about 26m. from Rome. According to the legend, it was from Cures that Titus Tatius led to the Quirinal the Sabine settlers, from whom the whole Roman people took the name Quirites. It was also renowned as the birthplace of Numa. It appears as the seat of a bishop in the fifth century, but seems to have been destroyed-by the Lombards in A.D. 589. The site con sists of a hill with two summits, round the base of which runs the Fosso Corese : the western summit was occupied by the necropolis, the eastern by the citadel, and the lower ground between the two by the city itself. A temple, the forum, the baths (second century, A.D.) etc., were excavated in 1874-77, but nothing is now visible on the site.