Cruptoricis Villa
Cruptoricis Villa a place in the country of the Frisians, where 400 Roman soldiers made away with themselves, that they might not fall into the hands of the Frisians. (Tac. Ann. 4.73.) It is identified with a place called Hem Ryck.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.