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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 749 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STABIAE , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, on the See also:coast at the See also:east extremity of the Gulf of See also:Naples (mod. Castellammare di Stabia). It was dependent upon Nuceria Alfaterna (q.v.) until it joined the revolt against See also:Rome in the Social See also:War (90 B.C.). In 89 it was taken and destroyed by See also:Sulla, and its territory given to Nuceria as a See also:reward for fidelity to Rome. The See also:place, however, continued to be visited for its natural beauties, its See also:mineral springs and its pure See also:milk. Remains of See also:fine villas have been found about See also:half a mile to the east of the See also:modern town, and also the remains of a See also:temple to the See also:genius of Stabiae, which no doubt occupied the same site as it had done in Oscan times. None of these remains is now visible. The town was destroyed by the eruption of A.D. 79 (in which the See also:elder See also:Pliny met his See also:death), but was soon rebuilt on the site now occupied by the modern Castellammare. Above the town on the east is the See also:Mons Lactarius (from See also:lac, milk). Here took place the See also:battle between See also:Narses and Teias in A.D. 553, which put an end to the See also:Gothic domination in Italy.

See M. Ruggiero, Scavi di Stabia del 1749 al 1782 (Naples, 1881); J. Beloch, Campanien, and ed. p. 248 sqq. (See also:

Breslau, 1890).

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