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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
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town of the
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Samnites, 24 M . N.W. from Beneventum . It possesses remains of walls in opus reticulatum, of a
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total length of over a mile; two inscriptions of the Republican period record the erection of towers . The remains of
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baths (Thermae Sabinianae) and of an amphitheatre still exist: and the city was supplied with
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water by an aqueduct . There are
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sulphur springs in the vicinity, which may have sup-plied the baths .

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