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SUESSULA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUESSULA , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:plain 12 m. W. of the See also:modern Cancello, 9 m. S.E. of the ancient See also:Capua. Its earlier See also:history is obscure. In 338 B.C. it obtained Latin rights from See also:Rome. In the Samnite and Hannibalic See also:wars it was strategically important as commanding the entrance to the Caudine pass. See also:Sulla seems to have founded a See also:colony here. It is frequently named as an episcopal see up till the loth See also:century A.D., and was for a See also:time the See also:chief town of a small Lombard principality. It was several times plundered by the See also:Saracens, and at last abandoned by the inhabitants in consequence of the See also:malaria. The ruins of the town See also:lie within the Bosco d'See also:Acerra, a picturesque See also:forest. They were more conspicuous in the 18th century thanthey now are, but traces of the See also:theatre may still be seen, and debris of other buildings. Oscan tombs were excavated there between 1878 and 1886, and important finds of vases, bronzes, &c., have been made.

The dead were generally buried within slabs of tufa arranged to See also:

form a See also:kind of See also:sarcophagus (see F. von Duhn in Romische Mitteilungen, 1887, p. 235 sqq.). Suessula See also:lay on the See also:line of the Via Popillia, which was here intersected by a road which ran from Neapolis through Acerrae, and on to the Via See also:Appia, which it reached just See also:west of the Caudine pass. On the hills above Cancello to the See also:east of Suessula was situated the fortified See also:camp of M. See also:Claudius See also:Marcellus, which covered See also:Nola and served as a See also:post of observation against See also:Hannibal in Capua. (T.

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