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See also:PIPERNO (anc. Privernum) , a See also:town of the See also:province of See also:Rome, See also:Italy, 61 m. S.E. of Rome by See also:rail. Pop. (1901), 6736. The See also:medieval town was founded in the loth See also:century (?) on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill 490 ft. above See also:sea-level, by refugees from the See also:Roman town of Privernum, See also:lower down (118 ft. above sea-level) on the highroad, i m. to the See also:north, at the mouth of a See also:low pass leading through the Volscian mountains to the valley of the Sacco. Here are remains of an See also:arch See also:crossing the road and other ruins (mostly buried) of the Roman See also:period; but the remains above ground are largely medieval. It is improbable, however, that the See also:ancient Volscian town should have occupied so easily accessible a site; it is not unlikely that it stood on the site occupied by the medieval and See also:modern town, but there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of this. Privernum was a Volscian town, and took up arms against Rome after the See also:foundation of a Latin See also:colony at See also:Setia in 382 B.C. It was finally captured in 329 B.C., and eleven years later the635
tribus Oufentina was founded, taking its nl'1ne from the See also:river Oufens (mod. Uffente) in the territory of Privernum. Little is known of it subsequently. The medieval town has a picturesque piazza, with a See also:Gothic See also:cathedral (1283), which pre-serves a See also:fine See also:porch, though the interior was modernized in 178x; a Gothic palazzo pubblico; and other Gothic churches exist in the town. Polygonal See also:terrace walls of the Roman or pre-Roman period exist at various places in the vicinity (G. B. Giovenale and L. Mariani in Notizie degli Scavi, 1899, 88). (T.
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