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CASILINUM (mod. Capua)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 446 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASILINUM (mod. See also:Capua) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, 3 M. N.W. of the ancient Capua. Its position at the point of junction of the Via See also:Appia and Via See also:Latina, and at their See also:crossing of the See also:river Volturnus by a three-arched: See also:bridge, which still exists, gave it considerable importance under the See also:Roman See also:republic; and while the See also:original pre-Roman See also:town, which was doubtless dependent on the neighbouring Capua, stood entirely on the See also:left (S.) See also:bank, surrounded on three sides by the river, the Roman city extended to the right bank also; remains of it have been found at some 25 ft. below the See also:modern ground-level, the river-See also:bed having risen considerably. In the Second Punic See also:War it was occupied by See also:Fabius Cunctator in 217 B.C., taken by See also:Hannibal after a gallant See also:defence by troops from See also:Praeneste and Perusia in the See also:winter of 216-215, but recaptured in the following See also:year, serving the See also:Romans as their See also:base of operations against Capua. It lost its See also:independence and became a praefectura. See also:Caesar conducted a See also:colony thither in 59 B.C., which was renewed by Antony in 44 B.C. The veterans took Octavian's See also:side after Caesar's See also:death, but it seems to have been See also:united with Capua before the See also:time of See also:Vespasian, and it does not occur in the See also:list of See also:independent communities given by See also:Pliny, who indeed (His'. Nat. iii. 70) speaks of the morientis Casilini reliquiae, and only its position at the junction of the roads redeemed it from utter insignificance. (T.

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