AUFIDENA  , an See also:

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

ancient See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the See also:

• SAMNITES

Samnites Caraceni, the site of which is just See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of the See also:

• MODERN

modern Alfedena,' See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, a station on the railway between See also:

• SULMONA, or SOLMONA (anc. Sulr,'so)

Sulmona and Isernia, 37 M. from the latter . Its remains are fully and accurately described by L . Mariani in Monumenti dei Lincei (1901), 225 seq.: cf . Notizie degli scavi, 1901, 442 seq.; 1902, 516 seq . The ancient city occupied two hills, both over 3800 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 (in the valley between were found the supposed remains of the later See also:

• FORUM (Lat. from foris, " out of doors ")

forum), and the walls, of rough Cyclopean See also:

• WORK

work, were over a mile in ' Two churches here contain paintings of See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of Abruzzese See also:

• ART

art, and one of them, the Madonna del Campo, contained fragments of a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of considerable See also:

• SIZE

size . See also:

• AUGEREAU, PIERRE FRANCOIS CHARLES

AUGEREAU length . A fortified outpost See also:

• LAY

lay on a still higher 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 to the north . Not very much is as yet known of the city itself (though one public See also:

• BUILDING

building of the 5th See also:

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

century B.C. was excavated in 'Igor, and a small See also:

• SANCTUARY (from the late Lat. sanctuarium, a sacred place)

sanctuary in 1902), See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention having been chiefly devoted to the See also:

• NECROPOLIS

necropolis which lay below it; 1400 tombs had already been examined in 1908, though this number is conjectured to be only a sixteenth of the whole . They are all inhumation burials, of the advanced See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and date from the 7th to the 4th century B.C., falling into three classes—those without See also:

• COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

coffin, those with a coffin formed 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 slabs, and those with a coffin formed of tiles . The See also:

• OBJECTS

objects discovered are preserved in a museum on the spot . In the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

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

period we find Aufidena figuring as a See also:

• POST

post station on the road between Sulmo and See also:

• AESERNIA (mod. Isernia)

Aesernia, which, however, runs past See also:

• CASTEL, LOUIS BERTRAND (1688-1757)

Castel di Sangro, See also:

• CROSSING

crossing the See also:

• RIVER

river by an ancient See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge some 5 M. to the north-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east . Castel di Sangro has remains of ancient walls, but these are attributed to a road by Mariani, and in any See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the fortified See also:

• AREA

area there was quite small, only one-sixteenth the size of Aufidena .

The attempted See also:

• IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification of Castel di Sangro with Aufidena must therefore be 'rejected, though we must allow that it was probably the Roman post station; the ancient city, since its See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture by the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans in the 3rd century B.C., having lost something of its importance . (T .