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LITERNUM , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, on the See also:low sandy See also:coast between See also:Cumae and the mouth of the Volturnus . It was probably once dependent on Cumae . In 194 B.C. it became a See also:Roman See also:colony . It is mainly famous as the See also:residence of the See also:elder Scipio, who withdrew from See also:Rome and died here . His See also:tomb and See also:villa are described by See also:Seneca . See also:Augustus is said to have conducted here a colony of veterans,' but the See also:place never had any See also:great importance, and the lagoons behind it made it unhealthy, though the construction of the Via Domitiana through it must have made it a posting station . It ceased to exist in the 8th See also:century . No remains are visible . See J . Beloch, See also:Cam panien, ed. ii . (See also:Breslau, 1890), 377 . |
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