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CLASTIDIUM (mod. Casteggio)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLASTIDIUM (mod. Casteggio) , a See also:village of the Anamares, in Gallia Cispadana, on the Via See also:Postumia, 5 M. E. of Iria (mod. See also:Voghera) and 31 M. W. of Placentia. Here in 222 B.C. M. See also:Claudius See also:Marcellus defeated the Gauls and won the spolia opima; in 218 See also:Hannibal took it and its stores of See also:corn by treachery. It never had an See also:independent See also:government, and not later than 190 B.C. was made See also:part of the See also:colony of Placentia (founded 219). In the Augustan See also:division of See also:Italy, however, Placentia belonged to the 8th region, Aemilia, whereas Iria certainly, and Clastidium possibly, belonged to the 9th, See also:Liguria (see Th. See also:Mommsen in Corp. Inscrip.

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Lat. vol. v. See also:Berlin, 1877, p. 828). The remains visible at Clastidium are scanty; there is a See also:fountain (the See also:Fontana d'Annibale), and a See also:Roman See also:bridge, which seems ,to have been constructed of tiles, not of See also:stone, was discovered in 1857, but destroyed. See C. Giulietti, Casteggio, notizie storiche II. Avanzi di antichitd (Voghera, 1893).

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