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AMITERNUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMITERNUM , an See also:

ancient See also:town of the Sabines, situated about 5 m. N. of See also:Aquila, in the broad valley of the Aternus, from which, according to See also:Varro, it took its name. It was stormed by the See also:Romans in 293 B.C., and though it suffered from the See also:wars of the Republican See also:period, it seems to have risen to renewed prosperity under the See also:empire. This it owed largely to its position. It See also:lay at the point of junction of four roads—the. Via See also:Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova and two branches of the Via See also:Salaria, which joined it at the 64th and 89th See also:miles respectively. The fertility of its territory was also praised by ancient authors. There are considerable remains of an See also:aqueduct, an See also:amphitheatre and a See also:theatre (the latter excavated in 1880—see Notizie degli scavi, r88o, 290, 350, 379), all of which belong to the imperial period, while in the See also:hill on which the See also:village of S. Vittorino is built are some See also:Christian catacombs. Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian See also:Sallust. In a See also:gorge 11 m. See also:east are massive remains of cyclopean walls (i.e. in rough blocks), probably intended to regulate the flow of the stream (N. Persichetti in Romische Mitteilungen, 1902, 134 seq.).

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