. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . There areno remains of antiquity at Nocera, except a very oldchurch, which is supposed to have been originally anancient temple. (Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 602.) It was at Nuceria that the great line of high-road,which, quitting the Appian Way at Capua, proceededdirectly S. to Rhegium, began to ascend the range ofhills that separate the Bay of Naples from that ofSalerno, or the Posidonian gulf, as it was called bythe ancients. Strabo reckons the distance from Pom-peii, through Nuceria to Marcina, on the latter bay,at 120 stadia (15 Roman miles) (Strab.
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . There areno remains of antiquity at Nocera, except a very oldchurch, which is supposed to have been originally anancient temple. (Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 602.) It was at Nuceria that the great line of high-road,which, quitting the Appian Way at Capua, proceededdirectly S. to Rhegium, began to ascend the range ofhills that separate the Bay of Naples from that ofSalerno, or the Posidonian gulf, as it was called bythe ancients. Strabo reckons the distance from Pom-peii, through Nuceria to Marcina, on the latter bay,at 120 stadia (15 Roman miles) (Strab. v. p. 251),which is less than the truth; Nuceria being, in fact,7 geographical miles, or 70 stadia, from Pompeii,and the same distance from the sea near inscription at Polla (Forum Popillii) gives thedistance from thence to Nuceria at 51 M. P.; while itreckons only 33 from thence to Capua. The Itine-rary gives 16 from Nuceria to Nola, and 21 fromNola to Capua. (Orell. Inscr. 3308 ; Mommsen,laser. 6276; Itin. Ant. p. 109).. COIN OF NUCERIA IN CAMPANIA. 2. (Nocera), a town of Umbria, situated on theFlaminian Way, between Forum Flaminii and theactual pass of the Apennines. It is mentioned byStrabo as a town of considerable population, owing toits situation on so frequented a line of road, as wellas to a manufacture of wooden vessels for householdutensils. Pliny designates the inhabitants as Nu-cerini cognomine Favonienses et Camellani, but theorigin of both appellations is quite unknown. Pto-lemy terms it a Colonia, but it is not mentioned assuch by any other writer. If this is not a mistake,it must have been one of those settled by Trajan orHadrian. (Zumpt, de Colon, p. 401.) The moderncity of Nocera, a small place, though an episcopal seeof great antiquity, undoubtedly retains the ancientsite. It was situated 12 miles from Forum Flaminiiand 15 from Fulginium (Foligno). (Strab. v. p. 227;Plin. iii. 14. s. 19; Ptol. iii. 1. §53; Itin. 311 ; Itin. Hier. p.
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