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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 252 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUINO , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Caserta; it is 56 m. N.W. by See also:rail from the town of Caserta, and 72 M. N.W. of Cassino. Pop. (1901) 2672. The See also:modern town, See also:close to the See also:ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the See also:cathedral have the See also:privilege of wearing the See also:mitre and cappa magna at See also:great festivals. It is close to the site of the ancient Aquinum, a See also:municipium in the See also:time of See also:Cicero, and made a See also:colony by the Triumviri, the birthplace of See also:Juvenal and of the See also:emperor Pescennius See also:Niger. The Via See also:Latina traversed it; one of the See also:gates through which it passed, now called Porta S. Lorenzo, is still well preserved, and there are remains within the walls (portions of which, built of large blocks of See also:limestone, still remain) of two (so called) temples, a See also:basilica and an See also:amphitheatre (see R. See also:Delbruck in Rom. Mitteilungen, 1903, p. 143).

Outside, on the See also:

south is a well-preserved triumphal See also:arch with composite capitals, and close to it the lrth-See also:century basilica of S. Maria Libera, a handsome See also:building in the Romanesque See also:style, but now roofless. Several See also:Roman See also:inscriptions are built into it, and many others that have been found indicate the ancient importance of the See also:place, which, though it does not appear in See also:early See also:history, is vouched for by Cicero and See also:Strabo.' A colony was planted here by the Triumviri. St See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas was See also:born in the See also:castle of Roccasecca, 5 M. N. See E. See also:Grossi, Aquinum (See also:Rome, 1907). (T.

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