206 pliny's natueal history. [Book IIT. 



tani\ the Bolani^, the Cusuetani, the Coriolani^, the Fide- 

 nates^, the Eoretii, the Hortenses^, the Latinienses, the 

 LongLilani'^, the Manatcs, the Macrales, the M,utiicu- 

 menses, the Mimienses, the JSTuminienses, the Olliculani, the 

 Octulani, the Pedani'', the Polluscini, the Querquetulani, the 

 Sicani, the Sisolenses, the Tolerienses, the Tiitienses, the Vi- 

 mitellarii, the Velieuses, the Yenetulani, and the A^itellenses. 

 Thus we see, fifty-three peoples of ancient Latium have 

 passed away without leaving any traces of their existence. 



In the Campanian territory there w^as also the town of 

 Stabise^, until the consulship of Cneius Pompeius and L. 

 Cato, when, on the day before the calends of May [30th of 

 April], it was destroyed in the Social War by L. Sulla the 

 legatus, and all that noAv stands on its site is a single farm- 

 house. Here also Taurania has ceased to exist, and the 

 remains of Casilinum^ are fast going to ruin. Besides these, 



* The people of Bubentum. Nothing is known of this Latin city or 

 of the preceding ones. 



2 Bola was an ancient city of Latium, taken successively by Coriolanus 

 and M. Postumius. Its site is supposed to have been five miles from 

 the modern Palestrina, at the modern village of Lugnano. 



2 The people of Corioli. It was probably a Latian town, but feU 

 into the possession of the Yolsci, from whom it was taken by Cn. Marcius, 

 who thence obtained the name of " Coriolanus." Monte Griove, nineteen 

 miles from Rome, has been suggested as its site. 



■* Pliiiy is supposed to be in error in representing Fidense, the early 

 antagonist of Rome, as being extinct in his time, and he will be found in 

 the sequel reckoning it in the Fom'th Region. This ancient Latian town 

 never lost its municipal rank, though it had no doubt in liis time become a 

 mere country town. The present Castel Giubilco is supposed to be 

 situate on its site. 



5 The people of Horta, a to^^i of Etruria, now Horte. Many Etruscan 

 remains have been discovered there. 



^ The people of Longula, a Yolscian town. Buon Riposo now occu- 

 pies its site. 



7 The people of Pedum ; nothing is known of it. The rest of these 

 nations are cither almost or entirely unkno^wTi. 



8 This was an ancient town between Pompeii and Sm-rentum. After 

 its overthrow, as mentioned by Pliny, it was in some measure rebuilt, 

 possibly after this passage was penned. It was finally destroyed by the 

 great eruption of Vesuvius in the year a.d. 79, and it was ' here that 

 our author breathed his last. 



^ A town tlu'ce miles west of Capua. It was of much importance as a 

 mihtaiy position, and played a considerable part in the second Punic war. 

 The period of its final destruction is unknown ; but modern Capua is 

 buili on its sit-i 



