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INTERAMNA LIRENAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INTERAMNA LIRENAS , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Italy in the Volscian territory near the See also:modern Pignataro Interamna, 5 M. S.E. of Aquinum; the additional name distinguishes it from Interamna Praetuttianorum (mod. See also:Teramo) and Interamna Nahartium (mod. See also:Terni). It was founded by the See also:Romans as a Latin See also:colony in 312 B.C. as a military See also:base in the See also:war against Samnium, no fewer than 4000 colonists being sent thither. It was among the Latin colonies which in 209 B.C. refused to See also:supply further contingents or See also:money for the Hannibalic war. It became a See also:municipium with the other Latin colonies, but we hear no more of it—mainly, no doubt, because it See also:lay off the Via See also:Latina. See also:Livy's description of it as on the Via Latina is not strictly accurate, and cannot be used as an indication that the former course of the Via Latina was through Interamna. The See also:city lay on a See also:hill on the N. See also:bank of the Liris, between two of its tributaries, thus lacking natural defences on the N. See also:side alone. Many See also:inscriptions have been found, and there are considerable remains of antiquity. One inscription bears the date A.D. 408, and the site was occupied in the See also:middle ages by a See also:castle called Terame or Termine.

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