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ATINA , the name of three See also:

ancient towns of See also:Italy. 1. A See also:town (mod. Elena) of Lucania, upon the Via Popillia, 7 M. N. of Tegianum, towards which an ancient road leads, inthe valley of the See also:river now known as Diano. Its ancient importance is vouched for by its walls of rough cyclopean See also:work, which may have had a See also:total extent of some 2 M. (see G. See also:Patron in Notizie degli scavi, 1897, 112; 1901, 498). The date of these walls has not as yet been ascertained, See also:recent excavations, which led to the See also:discovery of a few tombs in which the earliest See also:objects showing See also:Greek See also:influence may go back to the 7th See also:century B.C., not having produced any decisive See also:evidence on the point. To the See also:Roman See also:period belong the remains of an See also:amphitheatre and numerous See also:inscriptions. 2. A town (mod.

Atina) of the See also:

Volsci, 12 M. N. of See also:Casinum, and about 14 M. E. of Arpinum, on a See also:hill 1607 ft. above See also:sea-level. The walls, of carefully worked polygonal blocks of See also:stone, are still preserved in parts, and the See also:modern town does not fill the whole See also:area which they enclose. See also:Cicero speaks of it as a prosperous See also:country town, which had not as yet fallen into the hands of large proprietors; and inscriptions show that under the See also:empire it was still flourishing. One of these last is a boundary stone See also:relating to the assignation of lands in the See also:time of the Gracchi, of which six other examples have been found in See also:Campania and Lucania. 3. A town of the See also:Veneti, mentioned by See also:Pliny, H. N. iii. 131.

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