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CARSIOLI (mod. Carsoli)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 410 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARSIOLI (mod. Carsoli) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Italy, on the Via See also:Valeria; 42 M. E. by N. of See also:Rome. It was founded in the See also:country of the See also:Aequi between 302 and 298 B.C., just after the See also:establishment of See also:Alba Fucens, no doubt as a stronghold to guard the road to the latter. It is mentioned in 2 11 B.C. as one of the twelve out of See also:thirty Latin colonies which protested their inability to furnish more men or See also:money for the See also:war against See also:Hannibal. We find it used in 168 B.C. like Alba Fucens as a See also:place of confinement for See also:political prisoners. It was sacked in the Social War, but probably became a See also:municipium after it, though we hear but little of it. The See also:modern See also:town of Carsoli first appears in a diploma of A.D. 866, but the old site does not seem to have been abandoned until the 13th See also:century. It is now occupied only by vineyards, and lies about 2100 ft. above See also:sea-level, in a See also:plain surrounded by mountains, now called Piano del See also:Cavaliere. The See also:line of the city walls (originally in tufa, and reconstructed in See also:limestone), built of rectangular blocks, can be traced, and so can the scanty remains of several buildings, including the See also:podium or See also:base, of a See also:temple, and also the ancient See also:branch road from the Via Valeria (which itself keeps just See also:south-See also:east of Carsioli), traversing the site from See also:north to south. The See also:forty-third milestone of the Via Valeria still lies at or near its See also:original site; it was set up by See also:Nerva in A.D.

97. One mile to the north-See also:

west of Carsioli are the remains of an ancient See also:aqueduct consisting of a buttressed See also:wall of See also:concrete See also:crossing a valley. See G. J. See also:Pfeiffer and T. See also:Ashby in Supplementary Papers of the See also:American School in Rome, i. (1905), to8 seq. (T.

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