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region, begmmng at the Tiber, is looked upon as tlie first of 
Italy according to the division of Augustus. 
Inland there are the following colonies : — Capua \ so 
called from its champaign country, Aquinum^, Suessa^, Ve- 
nafrum^, Sora''', Teanum surnamed Sidicinum^, Nola''; 
and the towns of Abelia^, Aricia^, Alba Longa^^, the Acer- 
^ It probably had its name from Campania, of which it was the ca- 
pital, and which was so called from its extensive campi or plains. The 
site of this luxurious and magnificent city is now occupied by the village 
of Santa Maria di Capoua, the modern city of Capua being on the site 
of ancient Casilinum. Of ancient Capua there are but few remains. It 
was made a Homan colony by Juhus Caesar. 
2 Originally a city of the Yolscians : Cicero had a villa there, and 
Juvenal and the emperor Pescennius jSTiger were natives of it. The pre- 
sent Aqumo stands on its site, and there are considerable remains of it 
to be seen. 
3 Or Suessa Aurunca, to distinguish it from the Yolscian city of 
Suessa Pometia. The poet Lucihus was a native of it. The modern 
Sessa stands in its vicinity. 
* The modern Yenafri stands near its site. It was famous for the 
excellence of its ohves. 
^ On the banks of the Suris, and the most northerly town of the 
Yolsci. The modern Sora is m its vicinity, and the remains of its waUs 
are still to be seen. 
6 The modern Teano occupies its site. It was famous for the medicinal 
springs in its vicinity. There was another Teanum, in Apuha. 
7 The town on its site still preserves the name. Bells were made 
here, whence in the later writers they are called " Nolee." There is also 
an ecclesiastical tradition that church bells were first used by Saint Pau- 
hnus, bishop of this place, whence they were called ' Campanse.' The 
emperor Augustus died here. 
s The remains of the ancient town, of which the ruins are very exten- 
sive, are called Avella Yecchia. It was famous for its fruit, especially 
its filberts, to which it gives name in the French " Avehnes." It was 
first a Grreek colony, and then a town of the Oscans. 
9 A city of Latium, sixteen miles from Home, and said to have been of 
Sicilian origin. The modern town of La Kiccia occupies the site of its 
citadel. It was celebrated for the temple and grove of Diana, whose 
high priest was always a fugitive slave who had killed his predecessor, 
and was caUed " Rex nemorensis," or " king of the grove." See Ovid, 
Fasti, B. vi. 1. 59 ; Art of Love, B. i. 1. 260 ; and Lucan, B. vi. 1. 74. 
10 The ancient city was destroyed by Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome. 
The Roman colony here was probably but small. The Roman patrician 
families, the Julii, Servilii, Tullii, and Quintii, are said to have migrated 
from Alba Longa, which, according to tradition, had given to Rome her 
first king. 
