Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . including, besides numerous inscriptions andother fragments, the remains of a temple incorporatedinto the church of the Vescovado,a. remarkable cry pto-porticus, and several extensive subterranean vaultsunder the church ofS. Benedetto, constructed of reti-culated masonry. Some remains of an amphitheatreare also visible, and an ancient bridge of 21 arches,constructed for the support of the road which leadsinto the town at the modern Pwta delBorgo. It isstill called Ponte di Ronaco, supposed to be a corrup-tion of Ponte Avrmico (Hoare, I. c. pp. 145—147;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . including, besides numerous inscriptions andother fragments, the remains of a temple incorporatedinto the church of the Vescovado,a. remarkable cry pto-porticus, and several extensive subterranean vaultsunder the church ofS. Benedetto, constructed of reti-culated masonry. Some remains of an amphitheatreare also visible, and an ancient bridge of 21 arches,constructed for the support of the road which leadsinto the town at the modern Pwta delBorgo. It isstill called Ponte di Ronaco, supposed to be a corrup-tion of Ponte Avrmico (Hoare, I. c. pp. 145—147; Giustiniani, Diz. Topogr. vol. is. p. 28, &c.). The fertile plain which extends from the foot of theliills of Sessa to the Liris and the sea, now knownas the Dernanio di Sessa, is the ancient Ager Ves-cinus, so called from the Ausonian city of Vescia,which seems to have ceased to exist at an earlyperiod [Vescia]. The district in question was pro-bably afterwards divided between the Roman coloniesof Suessa and Sinuessa. [ K. H. B.]. COIN OF SUESSA AUUUNCA. SUESSA POJIETIA {-2,ov((Tffa Uoofx^vTiavv,Dionys.: EtJi. riajweiTiios), an ancient city of La-tium, which had ceased to exist in historical times,and the position of which is entirely unknown, ex-cept that it bordered on the • Pomptinus ager orPomptinae Paludes, to which it was supposed tohave given name. Virgil reckons it among thecolonies of Alba, and must therefore have consideredit as a Latin city {Aen. vi. 776): it is found also inthe list of the same colonies given by Diodorus(vii. Fr. 3); but it seems certain that it had at avery early period become a Volscian city. It wastaken from that people by Tarquinius Superbus,the first of the Roman kings who is mentioned ashaving made war on the Volscians (Liv. i. 53; p. 231; Vict. Vir. III. 8): Strabo indeed calls itthe metropolis of the Volscians, for which we haveno other authority; and it is probable that this is amere inference from the statements as to its gr
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