HISPELLUM (mod.

See also:

• SPELLO (anc. Hispellum, q.v.)

Spello, q.v.)  , an ancient town of Umbria, Italy, 3 M . N. of Fulginiae, on the road between it and Perusia, 1030 ft. above sea-level . It does not appear to be mentioned before the time of Augustus, who founded a colony there (Goiania Julia Hispellurn) and extended its territory to the springs of the Clitumnus, which had originally belonged to the territory of Mevania . It received the name of Flavia Constans by a rescript of the emperor Constantine, a copy of which on a marble tablet is still preserved at Spello . The gate by which the town is entered is ancient and has three portrait statues above it; two other gates and a part of the city wall, built of rectangular blocks of local limestone, may still be seen, as also the ruins of what is possibly a triumphal arch (attributed to Augustus) and an amphitheatre, and perhaps of a theatre, close to the modern high-road, outside the town . (T .