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SAEPINUM (mod. Altilia, near Sepino)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 994 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAEPINUM (mod. Altilia, near Sepino) , a Samnite See also:town 9 m. S. of the See also:modern See also:Campobasso, on the See also:ancient road from Beneventum to See also:Corfinium. It was captured by the See also:Romans in 293 B.C. The position of the See also:original town is on the See also:mountain far above the See also:Roman town, and remains of its walls in Cyclopean See also:masonry still exist. The See also:city walls (in See also:opus reticulatum) of the Roman town were erected by Tiberius before he became See also:emperor, the date (between 2 B.C. and A.D. 4) being given by an inscription. Within them are remains of a See also:theatre and other buildings, including temples of See also:Jupiter and See also:Apollo, and there still exists, by the See also:gate leading to See also:Bovianum, an important inscription of about A.D. 168, See also:relating to the tratture (see Mum) in Roman days, forbidding the natives to harm the shepherds who passed along them (Corp. inscr. See also:Lat. ix. 2438). See L.

Fulvio in Not. degli scay. (1878), 374.

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