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PISAURUM (mod. Pesaro, q.v.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PISAURUM (mod. See also:Pesaro, q.v.) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Umbria on the Via See also:Flaminia, 26 m. from See also:Ariminum and 8 from Fanum Fortunae. A See also:Roman See also:colony was founded here in the territory of the Galli See also:Senones in 184 B.C., at the mouth of the See also:river Pisaurus (mod. Foglia; the See also:sea has since then receded about See also:half a mile). Whether it took the See also:place of an earlier town or not, is not known: an important Gaulish See also:cemetery has been discovered near the See also:village of Novilara between Pisaurum and Fanum, but to which of these centres (if either) it belonged is uncertain (E. Brizio in Monumenti dei Lincei [1895], v. 85 sqq.). In 174 B.C. we hear that the censors built a See also:temple of See also:Jupiter here and paved a road. T. See also:Accius, the counsel who opposed See also:Cicero in the See also:case when he defended Cluentius in a still extant speech, was a native of Pisaurum. See also:Catullus refers to the town as decadent or unhealthy, but this may be merely malicious, and does not seem to be See also:borne out by facts: for it is not infrequently mentioned by classical authors. It was occupied by See also:Caesar in 49 B.C., and was made a colony under the second triumvirate.

Hence it bears the name Colonia Julia See also:

Felix. We hear little of it under the See also:empire. It was destroyed by the Goths in 539, and restored by See also:Belisarius in 545. From the See also:inscriptions, nearly 200 in number, an See also:idea of the importance of the town may be gained. Among them are a See also:group of cippi found on the site of a sacred See also:grove of the matrons of Pisaurum, bearing dedications to various deities, and belonging probably to the date of the See also:foundation of the colony. There are some remains of the town walls, and an ancient See also:bridge over the Foglia. It was, like Ariminum, 'a considerable place for the manufacture of bricks and pottery, though the factories cannot always be precisely localized.

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