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ASISIUM (mod. Assisi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASISIUM (mod. See also:Assisi) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Umbria, in a lofty situation about 15 M. E.S.E. of Perusia. As an See also:independent community it had already begun to use Latin as well as Umbrian in its See also:inscriptions (for one of these recording the See also:chief magistrates —marones—see C.I.L. xi. 5390). It became a See also:municipium in 90 B.C., but, though numerous inscriptions (C.I.L. xi. 5371-5606) testify to its importance in the Imperial See also:period, it is hardly mentioned by our classical authorities. Scanty traces of the ancient See also:city walls may be seen; within the town the best-preserved See also:building is the so-called See also:temple of See also:Minerva, with six Corinthian columns of travertine, now converted into a See also:church, erected by Gains and See also:Titus Caesius in the Augustan era. It fronted on to the ancient See also:forum, See also:part of the See also:pavement of which, with a See also:base for the equestrian statues of See also:Castor and See also:Pollux (as the inscription upon it records) has been laid See also:bare beneath the See also:present Piazza See also:Vittorio Emanuele. The remains of the See also:amphitheatre, in See also:opus reticulatum, may be seen in the See also:north-See also:east corner of the town; and other ancient buildings have been discovered. Asisium was probably the birthplace of See also:Propertius. (T.

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