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raiii\ the Allifani', the Atinates', the Aletrinates*, the 

 Anagnini*, the Atellani", the Affilani'', the Arpinates**, 

 the Auximates', the Abellani*", the Alfaterni (both those 

 who take their names from the Latin, the Hernican 

 and the Labicanian territory), Bovillffi", Calatia^^, Casi- 



^ The people of Acerra, still called by the same name ; it was plun- 

 dered and burnt by Hannibal, B.C. 216, but was rebuilt by order of the 

 Boman senate. 



^ The people of Allifae, a former city of Samnium, on the borders of 

 Campania. The modem city of Alife, a decayed place, stands on its sit€. 

 There are considerable remains. 



» The people of Atina, an ancient city of the Yolscians. The modem 

 city of Atina, noted for the bleakness of its situation, stands on its site. 

 There are extensive ruins of the ancient city. 



■* The people of Aletrium or Alatrium, an ancient city of the Hemici. 

 The modern Alatri stands on its site ; there are but few ancient remains. 



* The people of Anagnia in Latium, still called Anagni. There are 

 scarcely any remains of the ancient place, which was of considerable 

 importance. 



^ The people of Atella, an ancient city of Campania. Some remamfl 

 of its ruins are to be seen two miles east of the town of Aversa, near the 

 villages of San Arpino and San Elpidio. 



7 The people of Affil®, an ancient Hernican town. It is still called 

 Aflaie, and has many ancient remains. 



•* The people of Arpinum, once a famous city of the Volscians. The 

 present Arpino occupies its site ; there are few Roman remains, but its 

 ancient walls, of Cyclopean construction, still exist. It was the birth- 

 place of Marius and Cicero. The villa of the latter was on the banks of 

 the adjoining river Fibrenus. It waa, and is still, famous for its woollen 

 manufactures. 



^ The people of Auximum, a city of Picenum. Its site is occupied by 

 the modem Osimo ; there are numerous remains of antiquity to be seen. 



^" Or perhaps *' Abellini," people of Abelliacum ; which, if meant, 

 ought not to be included in this division, being a city of the Hirpini. 

 This city was finally destroyed in the wars of the Greeks and Lombards, 

 and themodem Avellino rose on its site. There are considerable ruins in 

 the vicinity. According to Hardouin, this place also claimed the honour 

 of giving name to filberts, which grew abundantly in its vicinity. If such 

 is the case, it seems probable that both it and Abella took their names 

 from that fruit as called by the early inhabitants. See Note in p. 198. 



" An ancient city of Latium. Its ruins are to be seen in the vicinity 

 of the Via Appia. See a curious story connected with it in Ovid's Fasti, 

 B. iii. 1. 667 et seq. 



^" There were two cities of this name on the confines of Samnium and 

 Campania, one in the valley of the Volturnum, the modern Caiazzo, the 

 other in Campania, between Capua and Beneventimi, whose ruins are 

 probably those to be seen at Le Gblazzi, between Caserta and Maddaloni. 



