A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy; With a Map and a Plan of Rome Volume 2 by John Anthony Cramer
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ...still less certainty toOrbtnianswer to the site of Ducenta in the same vicinity a. Plistia, mentioned by Livy in the course of the Sam-piistfa. nite war, may be Presto, about four miles from S. Agata dei Gotih. The latter site is with probability conceived to represent the ancient Saticula, aSaticuia. town of greater note than those which have been lately noticed. Its antiquity is attested by Virgil, in the catalogue of the allies of Turnus. vertunt felicia Bacclio Massica qui rastris: et quos de collibus altis Aurunci misere patres: Sidicinaque juxta yEquora; quique Cales linquunt; amnisque vadosi Accola Volturni, pariterque Saticulus asper, Oscorumque manus.--Ms. VII. 725. It is doubtful whether Saticula was originally a Samnite or a Campanian town. Livy speaks of it in the first instance, as only allied to the former nation; (IX. 21.) but elsewhere he distinctly places it in Samnium. (VII. 32.) In this he agrees with Festus, who informs us, that it was colonized by the Romans under the consuls Papirius Cursor and C. Junius. (Cf. Veil. Paterc. I. 14. Diod. Sic. XIX. Steph. Byz.) The site of this city has not been precisely determined. It seems however evident from Livy, (XXIII. 14.) that we must seek for it among the mountains south of the Volturno, and on the bor 1 A very rare coin with the belongs probably to Mel.e. Ses epigraph MALiESA in Oscan tini, Monet. Vet. p. 13. characters, and a dye similar to " Romaiielli, t. ii. p. that of other Samnite medals, b Id. t. ii. p. 419. ders of Campania. Pellegrini inclines to Limatolar, but a more modern topographer asserts that no ruins are visible there; whereas there are numerous remains about S. Agata dei Goti, whose situation in other respects accords with the description of the...
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