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FORUM CLODII

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORUM CLODII  , a
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post station on the Via
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Clodia, about 23 M . N.W. of Rome (not 32 M. as in the Antonine Itinerary), situated above the western
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bank of the Lacus Sabatinus (mod . Lake of
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Bracciano), and connected with the Via Cassia at Vacanae by a branch road which ran round the N. side of the lake (
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Ann . Inst., 1859, 43) . The site is marked by the church of SS .
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Marcus, Marcianus and Liberatus, which was founded in the 8th or 9th century A.D . Inscriptions mentioning the Foro-Clodienses have come to
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light on the spot; and an inscription of the Augustan period, which probably stood over the door of a
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villa, calls the place Pausilypon—a name justified by the beauty of the site . See Notizie degli scavi (1889), 5; D . Vaglieri, ibid . (1895), 342 . FORUM TRAIANI (mod . Fordongianus), an ancient
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town of Sardinia, on the
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river Thyrsus (Tirso), and a station on the
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Roman road through the centre of the island from Carales to Olbia and Turris Libisonis .

Many of its ruins have been destroyed since 186o . The best preserved are the

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baths, erected over hot
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mineral springs . The tanks for
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collecting the
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water and the large central
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piscina are noteworthy . The
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bridge over the Tirso has been to some extent modernized . On the opposite bank are the scanty remains of an amphitheatre . Not far off is a
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group of nuraghi, of which that of St Barbara in the ccmmune of
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Villanova Truschedda is one of the finest . See Taramelli in Notizie degli scavi (1903), 469 .

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