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FORUM CLODII , a See also: post station on the Via See also: Clodia, about 23 M
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N.W. of See also: Rome (not 32 M. as in the Antonine Itinerary), situated above the western See also: bank of the Lacus Sabatinus (mod
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Lake of See also: Bracciano), and connected with the Via Cassia at Vacanae by a branch road which ran round the N. See also: side of the lake (See also: Ann
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Inst., 1859, 43)
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The site is marked by the See also: church of SS
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See also: Marcus, See also: Marcianus and Liberatus, which was founded in the 8th or 9th century A.D
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Inscriptions mentioning the Foro-Clodienses have come to See also: light on the spot; and an inscription of the Augustan See also: period, which probably stood over the door of a See also: villa, calls the place Pausilypon—a name justified by the beauty of the site
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See Notizie degli scavi (1889), 5; D
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Vaglieri, ibid
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(1895), 342
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FORUM TRAIANI (mod
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Fordongianus), an See also: ancient See also: town of See also: Sardinia, on the See also: river Thyrsus (Tirso), and a station on the See also: Roman road through the centre of the See also: island from Carales to Olbia and Turris Libisonis
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Many of its ruins have been destroyed since 186o . The best preserved are the See also: baths, erected over hot See also: mineral springs
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The tanks for See also: collecting the See also: water and the large central See also: piscina are noteworthy
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The See also: bridge over the Tirso has been to some extent modernized
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On the opposite bank are the scanty remains of an amphitheatre
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Not far off is a See also: group of nuraghi, of which that of St See also: Barbara in the ccmmune of See also: Villanova Truschedda is one of the finest
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See Taramelli in Notizie degli scavi (1903), 469
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