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MASSICUS, MONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASSICUS, See also:MONS , a See also:mountain See also:ridge of See also:ancient See also:Italy, in the territory of the See also:Aurunci, and on the border of See also:Campania and See also:Latium adjectum—attributed by most authors to the latter. It projects See also:south-See also:west from the volcanic See also:system of Rocca Monfina (see SUESSA AURUNCA) as far as the See also:sea, and separates the See also:lower course of the Liris from the See also:plain of Campania. It consists of See also:limestone, with a superstratum of pliocenic and volcanic masses, and was once an See also:island; its highest point is 2661 ft. above sea-level. It was very famous for its See also:wine in ancient times. There was just See also:room along the See also:coast for the road to pass through ; the pass was guarded by the Auruncan See also:town of Vescia (probably on the mountain See also:side), which ceased to exist in 314 B.C. after the defeat of the Ausones, but See also:left its name to the spot. Its successor, Sinuessa, on the coast, a station on the Via See also:Appia, was constructed in 312 B.C., and a See also:colony was founded there in 295 B.C. It is not infrequently mentioned by classical writers as a See also:place in which travellers halted. Here See also:Virgil joined See also:Horace on the famous See also:journey to Brundusium. See also:Domitian considerably increased its importance by the construction of the Via Domitiana, which left the Via Appia here and ran to See also:Cumae and See also:Puteoli, and it was he, no doubt, who raised it to the position of colonia Flavia. The town was destroyed by the See also:Saracens, but some ruins of it are still visible two See also:miles See also:north-west of the See also:modern See also:village of Mondragone. The See also:mineral springs which still rise here were frequented in antiquity.

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