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ABANO BAGNI
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ABANO BAGNI, a town of Venetia, Italy, in the province of Padua, on the E. slope of the Monti Euganei ; it is 6 m. S.W. by rail from Padua. Pop. (1901) 4556. Its hot springs and mud baths are much resorted to, and were known to the Romans as Aponi fans or Aquae Patavinae. Some remains of the ancient baths have been discovered (S. Mandruzzato, Trattato dei Bagni d' Abano, Padua, 1789). An oracle of Geryon lay near, and the so-called sorles Praenestinae (C.I.L. i., Berlin, 1863 ; 1438-1454), small bronze cylinders inscribed, and used as oracles, were perhaps found here in the 16th century.