. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ced in that town. It was hence besieged by Pompeius Strabo, andnot reduced till after a long and obstinate defence. Of the smaller towns we may notice — Potentia, at the mouth of theriver of the same name, colonized by the Romans in 184; CupraMaritima, 8 miles N. of the Truentus, the site of an ancient temple ofCupra Juno), founded by the Etruscans \^ Cingulum, Clngoli, W. ofAuximum, a place of great strength,^ noticed in the Civil War between ^ It is noticed by Juvenal: — Ante clomuin Ven
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ced in that town. It was hence besieged by Pompeius Strabo, andnot reduced till after a long and obstinate defence. Of the smaller towns we may notice — Potentia, at the mouth of theriver of the same name, colonized by the Romans in 184; CupraMaritima, 8 miles N. of the Truentus, the site of an ancient temple ofCupra Juno), founded by the Etruscans \^ Cingulum, Clngoli, W. ofAuximum, a place of great strength,^ noticed in the Civil War between ^ It is noticed by Juvenal: — Ante clomuin Veneris, quam Dorica sustinet Ancon.— iv. Stat fucare coins nec Sidone vilior Ancon:Murice nec Libyco. Sil. Ital. viii. 438. Lucan refers to this in tbe line— Yarns, nt admotse pnlsarunt Auximon aliP, kc. ii. 466.^ The natural strength of its position was remarkable, and it was furtherfortified by art :— Et inclemens hirsuti signifer Ascli. Sil. Ital. viii. 440. 9 Et quels littorese funiant altaria Cuprae— Id. viii. 434. • 1 Celsis Labienum Cingula saxa Miserunt muris. Id. x. Coin of Adria. This coin belongs to the class commonly known as .Es grave. Chap. XXV. SABIXI. 519 Caesar and Pompey; Truentum, or Castrum Truentinum, at the mouthof the Truentus^ one of the places occupied by Caesar in the CivilWars; and^ lastly^ Interamna, Terarao, the capital of the Prietutii,whose naroe was subsequently applied to the town under the form ofAprutium, whence the modern name of the province Ahruzzo. Roads.—Picenum was reached from Rome by the Via Salaria, whichcrossed the Apennines to Asculum and thence descended to theAdriatic. Another road followed the line of coast from Ancona toAternum. where it united with the Via Valeria. A third left Anconaand Auximum for >7uceria, where it fell into the Via Flaminia. History.—The history of Picenum is unimportant: it was reducedby the Romans in a single campaign in 268: it suffered severelyfrom the raAages of the Se
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