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See also: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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See also:Lake of See also:Bracciano), and connected with the Via See also:Cassia at Vacanae by a See also:branch road which ran See also: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: Many of its ruins have been destroyed since 186o . The best preserved are the See also:baths, erected over hot See also:mineral springs . The tanks for See also:collecting the See also:water and the large central See also:piscina are noteworthy . The See also:bridge over the Tirso has been to some extent modernized . On the opposite bank are the scanty remains of an See also:amphitheatre . 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 . See Taramelli in Notizie degli scavi (1903), 469 . |
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