Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . seems to have originallyextended from the river Tifernus to the Frento{Fortore), and to have included the wliole tractbetween tliose rivers to the sea. The town of Cli-ternia, which was situated within these limits, isexpressly called by Pliny a dependency of Larinum(Larinatum Chternia, Plin. iii. 11. s. 16); andTeanum, which is placed by him to the N. of tlieFrento, was certainly situated on its right it is probable that the municipal territory ofLarinum under the Roman government still com-prised the whole tract between the two rivers. The
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . seems to have originallyextended from the river Tifernus to the Frento{Fortore), and to have included the wliole tractbetween tliose rivers to the sea. The town of Cli-ternia, which was situated within these limits, isexpressly called by Pliny a dependency of Larinum(Larinatum Chternia, Plin. iii. 11. s. 16); andTeanum, which is placed by him to the N. of tlieFrento, was certainly situated on its right it is probable that the municipal territory ofLarinum under the Roman government still com-prised the whole tract between the two rivers. TheTabula places Larinum eighteen miles from Teanumin Apulia, and this distance is confirmed by an ex-press statement of Cicero. {Tab. Pent; Cic.^woCluent. 9.) There exist numerous coins of Larinum, with theinscription ladinod in Roman letters. From thislast circumstance they cannot be referred to a veryearly period, and are certainly not older than theRoman conquest. (Eckhel, vol. i. p, 107; Momm-sen, liom. Milnzwesen, p. 335.) [E. H. B.]. COIN OF LAniXUM. LARISSA {Adpiaa-a, but on coins and inscr Aa-piaa or Aopeicra: £tk. Aapiaaaios, Aapiaaios), aname common to many Pelasgic towns, and probablya Pelasgic word signifying city. (Comp. Strab. 620; Dionys. i. 21; Kiebuhr, Ili^t. of Rome, vol. 60.) Hence in mythology Larissa is repre-sented as the daughter of Pekvsgus (Paus. ii. 24. LARISSA. § 1), or of riasiis, a Pelasgiuii prince. (Strab. ) 1. An important town of Thessaly, the capital ofthe district Pelasgiotis, was situated in a fertileplain npon a gently rising ground, on the right orsouth bank of the Peneius. It had a strongly forti-fied citadel. (Diod. xv. 61.) Laris3a is not men-tioned by Hoiner. Some commentators, however,suppose it to be the same as the Pelasgic Argos ofllunier (//. ii. 681), but the latter was the name ofa rather than of a town. Others, with moreprobability, identify it with the Argissa of the poet.{11. ii. 738.) [See
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