ABANO BAGNI  , a town of Venetia, Italy, in the province of Padua, on the E. slope of the Monti Euganei ; it is 6 m . S.W. by rail from Padua . Pop . (1901) 4556 . Its hot springs and mud baths are much resorted to, and were known to the Romans as Aponi fans or Aquae Patavinae . Some remains of the ancient baths have been discovered (S . Mandruzzato, Trattato dei Bagni d' Abano, Padua, 1789) . An oracle of Geryon lay near, and the so-called sorles Praenestinae (C.I.L. i., Berlin, 1863 ; 1438-1454), small bronze cylinders inscribed, and used as oracles, were perhaps found here in the 16th century .