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AECLANUM , an See also:

ancient See also:

TOWN

town of Samnium, See also:

Italy, 15 M. E.S.E. of Beneventum, on the Via See also:

APPIA, VIA

Appia (near the See also:

MODERN

modern Mirabella). It became the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief town of the See also:

HIRPINI (from an Oscan or Sabine stem hirpo-, "wolf ")

Hirpini after Beneventum had become a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony. See also:

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla captured it in 89 B.C. by setting on See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire the wooden breastwork by which it was defended, and new fortifications were erected. See also:

HADRIAN (PUBLICS AELIUS HADRIANUS)

Hadrian, who repaired the Via Appia from Beneventum to this point, made it a colony; it has ruins+ of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city walls, of an See also:

AQUEDUCT (Lat. aqua, water, and ducere, to lead; Gr. apaymryeiov, apayeeywov, vlrovopos)

aqueduct, See also:

BATHS

baths and an See also:

AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre; nearly 400 See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions have also been discovered. Two different routes to See also:

APULIA (sometimes APPULIa in manuscripts but never in inscriptions)

Apulia diverged at this point, one (Via See also:

AURELIA, VIA

Aurelia Aeclanensis) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other (the Via Appia of the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire) passing the Lacus See also:

AMPSANCTUS, or AMSANCTUS (mod. Sorgente Mefita)

Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and See also:

VENUSIA (mod. Venosa, q.v.)

Venusia; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum (mod. Avellini) may also follow an ancient See also:

LINE

line. H. Nissen (Italische Landeskunde, See also:

Berlin, 1902, H. 819) speaks of another road, which he believes to have been that followed by See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, from Aeclanum to Trevicum and thence to Ausculum; but Th. See also:

MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen (Corpus Inscrip. See also:

LAT

Lat., Berlin, 1883, ix.

602) is more likely to be right in supposing that the road taken by Horace ran directly from Beneventum to Trevicum and thence to Aquilonia (though the cour, e of this road is not yet determined in detail), and that the easier, though somewhat longer, road by Aeclanum was of later date.

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