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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNUS , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Sardinia, of Phoenician origin, on the See also:west See also:coast, 18 m. from See also:Tharros, and the same from See also:Bosa. At the See also:time of the Second Punic See also:War it is spoken of as the See also:principal See also:city of the See also:district, and its See also:capture by the See also:Romans was the last See also:act in the suppression of the See also:rebellion of 215 B.C., it having served as a See also:place of See also:refuge for the fugitives after the defeat of the combined forces of the rebels and the Carthaginians. The site of the ancient See also:acropolis, covered with debris, may still be made out. Here were found three See also:inscriptions in 1831, with dedications by the ordo, or town See also:council, of Cornus to various patrons, from one of which it seems that it was a See also:colony, though when it became so is unknown (Th. See also:Mommsen, Corp. Inscr. See also:Lat. X. 7915 sqq.). Unimportant remains of an See also:aqueduct and (perhaps) of a See also:church exist. Excavations in the See also:necropolis of the See also:Roman See also:period are recorded by F. Nissardi, Notizie degli Scavi, 1887, p.

47. Phoenician See also:

rock-cut tombs may also be seen.

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