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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRUMENTUM , an See also:

ancient See also:town in the centre of Lucania, 33 M. S. of Potentia by the See also:direct road through Anxia, and 52 M. by the Via Herculia, at the point of divergence of a road eastward to See also:Heraclea. It seems to have been a native Lucanian town, not a See also:Greek See also:settlement. In 215 B.C. the Carthaginian See also:general See also:Hanno was defeated under its walls, and in 207 B.C. See also:Hannibal made it his headquarters. In the Social See also:War it appears as a strong fortress, and seems to have been held by both sides at different times. It became a See also:colony, perhaps in the See also:time of See also:Sulla, at latest under See also:Augustus, and seems to have been of some importance. Its site, identified by Holste from the description of the martyrdom of St Laverius, is a See also:ridge on the right See also:bank of the Aciris (Agri) about 196o ft. above See also:sea-level, m. below the See also:modern Saponara, which lies much higher (2533 ft.). Its ruins (all of the See also:Roman See also:period) include those of a large See also:amphitheatre (See also:arena 205 by 197 ft.), the only one in Lucania, except that at See also:Paestum. There are also remains of a See also:theatre. See also:Inscriptions See also:record the repair of its town walls and the construction of thermae (of which remains were found) in 57–51 B.C., the construction in 43 B.C., of a See also:portico, remains of which may be seen along an ancient road, at right angles to the See also:main road, which traversed Grumentum from S. to N. See F.

P. Caputi in Notizie degli scavi (1877), 129, and G. Patroni, ibid.(1897) 180. (T.

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