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TELESIA [mod. Telese]

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 573 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TELESIA [mod. Telese]  , a See also:town of the See also:Samnites, 24 M . N.W. from Beneventum . It possesses remains of walls in See also:opus reticulatum, of a See also:total length of over a mile; two See also:inscriptions of the Republican See also:period See also:record the erection of towers . The remains of See also:baths (Thermae Sabinianae) and of an See also:amphitheatre still exist: and the See also:city was supplied with See also:water by an See also:aqueduct . There are See also:sulphur springs in the vicinity, which may have sup-plied the baths .

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