. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of Capua. tution : it withstood Hannibal on no less. Coin of Xola. Hence it is termed Chalcidian :— Hinc ad Clialcitiicam transfert citns agmina Xolam.—Sil. Ital. xii. 161. Campo Xola sedet crebris Circimidata in orbemTurribu?. et celso facilem tutatur adiri Planitiem vallo. Sil. Ital. xii. 162. s Hinc calidi fontes, lentiscifemmque tenenturLiternnm. Or. Jlet. xv. 713. 4 Chap. XXVII. TOWNS — EOADS — ISLANDS. 571 Prom. Misenum, a favourite resort of the Romans, and, among others,of Hortensi
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of Capua. tution : it withstood Hannibal on no less. Coin of Xola. Hence it is termed Chalcidian :— Hinc ad Clialcitiicam transfert citns agmina Xolam.—Sil. Ital. xii. 161. Campo Xola sedet crebris Circimidata in orbemTurribu?. et celso facilem tutatur adiri Planitiem vallo. Sil. Ital. xii. 162. s Hinc calidi fontes, lentiscifemmque tenenturLiternnm. Or. Jlet. xv. 713. 4 Chap. XXVII. TOWNS — EOADS — ISLANDS. 571 Prom. Misenum, a favourite resort of the Romans, and, among others,of Hortensius and of Xero, who here planned the death of Agrippina ; ^Herculaneum, Ercolano, at the foot of Vesuvius, founded by the Oscans,occupied by the Etruscans, and subsequently by Greeks, captured bythe Romans in the Social War, and finally buried to a depth of from70 to 100 feet beneath the ground by the same catastrophe whichdestroyed Pompeii; it was discovered in 1738, and partly explored, thechief buildings found being a theatre capable of seating 10,0uO persons,portions of two temples, and other buildings ; Stabiae, Castell-a-Maredi Stahia, 4
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