ATINA  , the name of three See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient towns of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . 1 . A See also:

• TOWN

town (mod . Elena) of Lucania, upon the Via Popillia, 7 M . N. of Tegianum, towards which an ancient road leads, inthe valley of the See also:

• RIVER

river now known as Diano . Its ancient importance is vouched for by its walls of rough cyclopean See also:

• WORK

work, which may have had a See also:

• TOTAL

total extent of some 2 M . (see G . See also:

• PATRON

Patron in Notizie degli scavi, 1897, 112; 1901, 498) . The date of these walls has not as yet been ascertained, See also:

• RECENT

recent excavations, which led to the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of a few tombs in which the earliest See also:

• OBJECTS

objects showing See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence may go back to the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., not having produced any decisive See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence on the point . To the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period belong the remains of an See also:

• AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre and numerous See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions . 2 . A town (mod .

Atina) of the See also:

• VOLSCI

Volsci, 12 M . N. of See also:

• CASINUM

Casinum, and about 14 M . E. of Arpinum, on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill 1607 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level . The walls, of carefully worked polygonal blocks of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, are still preserved in parts, and the See also:

• MODERN

modern town does not fill the whole See also:

• AREA

area which they enclose . See also:

• CICERO

Cicero speaks of it as a prosperous See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country town, which had not as yet fallen into the hands of large proprietors; and inscriptions show that under the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire it was still flourishing . One of these last is a boundary stone See also:

• RELATING

relating to the assignation of lands in the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the Gracchi, of which six other examples have been found in See also:

• CAMPANIA

Campania and Lucania . 3 . A town of the See also:

• VENETI

Veneti, mentioned by See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny, H . N. iii . 131 .