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CLITUMNUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 531 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLITUMNUS  , a See also:

river in See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, which rises from a very abundant See also:spring by the road between the See also:ancient Spoletium and See also:Trebia, 8 m. from the former, 4 M. from the latter, and after a See also:short course through the territory of the latter See also:town joins the Tinia, a tributary of the See also:Tiber . The spring is well described by See also:Pliny (Epist. viii . 8): it was visited by Caligula and by See also:Honorius, and is still picturesque—a clear See also:pool surrounded by poplars and weeping willows . The stream was personified as a See also:god, whose ancient See also:temple See also:lay near the spring, and See also:close by other smaller shrines; the See also:place, therefore, occurs under the name Sacraria (the shrines) as a See also:Roman See also:post station . The See also:building generally known as the Tempio di Clitunno, close to the spring, is, however, an ancient See also:tomb, converted into a See also:Christian See also:church in the See also:early See also:middle ages, the decorative sculptures, which are obviously contemporary with those of S . Salvatore at See also:Spoleto, belonging to the 4th or 6th See also:century according to some authorities, to the 12th according to others . See H . Grisar, Nuovo bullettino di archeologia cristiana (See also:Rome, 1895) i . 127; A .

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Lord Byron, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, wrote: "But thou, Clitumnus in thy sweetest wave Of the most living crystal that was e'er The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters! And most serene of aspect, and most clear; Surely that stream was unprofaned by slaughters - A mirror and a bath for Beauty's youngest daughters!"
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