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	Casinum - LoveToKnow 1911
		CASINUM, an ancient town of Italy, probably of Volscian origin.
		Varro states that the name was Sabine, and meant forum vetus, and also that the town itself was Samnite,but he is probably wrong.
		The older Volscian Casinum must have stood on the hill (1715 ft.) above the Roman town (148 ft.), where considerable remains of fortifications in Cyclopean masonry, of finely cut blocks of limestone, still exist.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Casinum (448 words)

	Via Latina - LoveToKnow 1911
		After their junction, the Via Latina continued to follow the valley of the Trerus (Sacco), following the line taken by the modern railway to Naples, and passing below the Hernican hill-towns, Anagnia, Ferentinum, Frusino, andc.
		At Fregellae it crossed the Liris, and then passed through Aquinum and Casinum, both of them comparatively low-lying towns.
		It then entered the interval between the Apennines and the volcanic group of Rocca Monfina, and the original road, instead of traversing it, turned abruptly N.E. over the mountains to Venafrum, thus giving a direct communication with the interior of Samnium by roads to Aesernia and Telesia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Via_Latina (302 words)

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		In epoca protostorica quell'antico centro, che i Romani poi chiamarono Casinum, si trovò ristretto in un breve territorio tra i Volsci a nord e gli Osci a sud: probabilmente ciò che restava degli autoctoni Ausoni (v.
		Le mura, dopo aver abbracciato il centro urbano di Casinum, si snodavano in direzione nord fino al colle Janulo per poi risalire fino alla vetta, dominata dall'acropoli (anche questa poderosamente fortificata); di qui discendevano lungo il crinale meridionale per ricollegarsi alla città e chiudere l'enorme triangolo che avevano descritto.
		Ce lo dimostra la presenza in Casinum - documentata dalle fonti - di un vescovo di nome Caprasio nel 465 e, forse, di un altro di nome Severo nel 487: dunque la città nel secolo V era sede vescovile.
	www.cassino2000.com /sezioni.php?action=content&idsezione=27&cat=Storia (2545 words)

	Information Cassino © ItalySquare.com
		Cassino's origins lie in the Volsci settlement of Casinum, at the base of the nearby Monte Cairo.
		Casinum passed under the control of the Samnites, but the Romans eventually gained control of Casinum, establishing a colony there in 312 BCE.
		The modern town which arose on the site of the ancient town of Casinum was called San Germano, but in on 28 July 1863 the name was officially reverted to "Cassino".
	www.italysquare.com /en/cassino.htm (320 words)

	OU Center for Classical Archaeology and Civilizations
		In 2001 the Center led an expedition to excavate at the Roman town of Casinum located at Monte Cassino, Italy.
		Casinum is located south east of Rome on the Via Latina, a famous road leading to Pompeii.
		Casinum’s amphitheater was built by a local wealthy Roman lady named Ummidia Quadratilla, who was known for training highly educated slaves.
	www.ou.edu /ccac/Projects/Casinum/index.html (170 words)

	...::HOTEL LA PACE - CASSINO (ITALY)::...
		In 309 b.C. was a Roman colony with the name of "Casinum" and later became an important commercial centre.
		During the second world war was completely distroyed, a great main of the fallen are burried in war cemeneries near the abbey of Montecassino.
		The ponderous building of the sannitic walls are the rest of the ancient Casinum city wall.
	www.cassinohotel.com /cassino_engl.html (525 words)

	Abbey of Montecassino, Italy
		The road to the abbey of Montecassino (9km/5.5mi) winds steeply up the hill in hairpin bends from the west side of the town.
		Just outside the town, on the left of the road, are the remains of the Roman Casinum, including the massive ruins of an amphitheater, a mausoleum and a theater.
		At the next bend, on the right, are the ruins of the Rocca lanula (193m/637ft), built 949-86.
	www.planetware.com /cassino/abbey-of-montecassino-i-la-mca.htm (299 words)

	Cassino - Latium - Welcome to Italy
		The Montecassino Monastery was founded by St. Benedict about 529 of the Christian Era on the remnants of a preexisting Roman fortification of the municipium Casinum.
		The heathen cult was still practised on this mountain site in the temple of Apollo and in a nearby holy grove to which a sacrifice area was adjoining.
		The Abbey was rebuilt according to the ancient architectural pattern and to the "where and as was" program of Abbot Ildefonso Rea, its reconstructor.
	www.emmeti.it /Welcome/Lazio/ProvFrosinone/Montecassino/Intro/index.uk.html (384 words)

	casinum - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word casinum:
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		CASINUM : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=casinum (70 words)

	Tour of Italy - The Abbey of Montecassino - Mainpage
		However, you will see some great pictures of the monastery and some of its treasures.
		The Monte cassino Monastery was founded by St. Benedict about 529 A.D. on the remnants of a pre-existing Roman fortification of the Municipum Casinum.
		The heathen cult was still practiced on this mountain site in the temple of Apollo and in a nearby holy grove to which a sacrifice area was adjoining.
	www.touritaly.org /tours/montecassino/cassino01.htm (586 words)

	Cassino -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Latin Casinum, town, Frosinone provincia, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy.
		Cassino lies along the Rapido River at the foot of Monte (mount) Cassino, 87 miles (140 km) southeast of Rome.
		It originated as Casinum, a town of the ancient Volsci people on a site adjacent to the modern town, on the lower slopes of the mountain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020659 (64 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: The Manner of Roman Charity
		The cases here cited are nearly all (except that of Pliny) based upon the evidence of inscriptions.
		Ummidia Quadratilla built at Casinum an amphitheater and a temple.
		Secundus at Bordeaux built an aqueduct costing 2,000,000 sesterces.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/romancharity.html (323 words)

	Varro's Aviary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first book is devoted to agriculture, the second book to the raising of domestic cattle and the third book to smaller livestock such as poultry, game birds and bees.
		In his third book, while writing about aviaries, he describes the aviary (or ornithone) which he created for himself on his estate near Casinum (modern Cassino).
		This illustration of Varro's aviary was based upon his description of it, the reconstruction was also inspired by the ruins of the Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli.
	www.harborside.com /~rayj/varro.html (416 words)

	George Gissing : Veranilda : Chapter XXIV. The Mount of the Monk
		It was a rough, narrow road, winding through a thick forest of oak and beech trees, here and there so steep as to try the firm footing of the mules, and in places dangerous because of broken ground on the edge of precipitous declivities.
		The cart was driven by its owner, a peasant of Casinum, who at times sat sideways on one of the beasts, at times walked by them; behind came the two religious men, cowled, bare-footed; and last Basil's attendant on horseback.
		He told how Benedict, seeking with a little company of pious followers for a retreat from the evil of the world, came to ruined Casinum, and found its few wretched inhabitants fallen away from Christ, worshipping the old gods in groves and high places.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.2303/sec.24 (3788 words)

	The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No by Various eBook by BookRags
		At length, in the year 1078, the object of this narrative recommenced its travels.
		A wealthy citizen of Amalfi, whose name is not recorded, had long felt a wish to exchange active life for the cloister, and had selected the monastery of Casinum as the place of his future retirement.
		Being present in the Eastern capital during the tumultuous deposition of Michael the Seventh, he perceived in the general confusion a favourable opportunity for appropriating this precious fragment to himself.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12530/17.html (253 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Fabius by Plutarch
		When his friends reported these things to the dictator, persuading him that, to avoid the general obloquy, he should engage the enemy, his answer was, "I should be more faint-hearted than they make me, if, through fear of idle reproaches, I should abandon my own convictions.
		Desirous to refresh his horse in some good pasture-grounds, and to draw off his army, he ordered his guides to conduct him to the district of Casinum.
		They, mistaking his bad pronunciation, led him and his army to the town of Casilinum, on the frontier of Campania which the river Lothronus, called by the Romans Vulturnus, divides in two parts.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/fabius.html (5029 words)

	Benvenuti in Ciociaria, 800.000 anni di storia, cultura e natura. - PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO CASINUM
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		Situato nell’area archeologica, il Museo è in prossimità della Porta Campana di Casinum.
		Da qui si prosegue alla visita dei resti dell’antica Casinum.
	www.ciociariaturismo.it /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=279 (105 words)

	AFS. WWII. Italy. Setting. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cassino existed as far back as the fourth century B.C. when it was known to the Romans as Casinum.
		There are references to Casinum in the works of Cicero and Livy, and the town was evidently of some social standing as it is known that Mark Antony had a villa there---where he devoted himself to what the discreet Baedeker has described as "his nameless orgies."
		But Cassino's special claim to fame rests on the great mountain which rears up behind the town and bears its name.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/specoll/AFS/4/e/4e2.html (1568 words)

	South of Formia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A burial ground, dating to the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., has been found along the Via Casilina (the main road on which you entered town), and also a Roman burial area.
		Cassino, in Roman times known as Casinum, was under Roman influence by 272 B.C. During the Imperial age the town flourished and spread over a wide area.
		Gradually this prosperity was interrupted by the continuous raids on the town by Goths, Vandals, Longobards and Saracens – to name a few – and the people all moved back into the walled and protected city.
	www.nsa.naples.navy.mil /gaetaffsc/newpage76.htm (1450 words)

	Second Oration Against Marcus Antonius by Cicero
		After this violation of all religious observances, you hasten off to the estate of Marcus Varro, a most conscientious and upright man, at Casinum.
		By just the same, you will say, as that by which you entered on the estates of the heirs of Lucius Rubrius, or of the heirs of Lucius Turselius, or on other innumerable possessions.
		Men came from Casinum, from Aquinum, from Interamna to salute him.
	www.4literature.net /Cicero/Second_Oration_Against_Marcus_Antonius/14.html (1305 words)

	George Gissing : Veranilda : Chapter XXVII. The King of the Goths
		With his wonted grave simplicity, Felix told that he had long since recovered from the effects of the wound, but had remained at Aesernia, unable to obtain permission to go in search of his master.
		The Gothic army was now advancing along the Via Latina; Basil's followers were united with the troop under Venantius; and on their arrival at Casinum, Felix succeeded in getting leave to climb to the monastery.
		He had been assured that his lord had recovered health, and was still sojourning with the holy men; but by whom this news had been brought he could not say.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.2303/sec.27 (3647 words)

	Livy's History of Rome
		Some who were familiar with the country told him that if he marched into the neighbourhood of Casinum and occupied the pass, he would prevent the Romans from rendering assistance to their allies.
		When he looked round and saw the country shut in by mountains and rivers he called the guide and asked him where on earth he was.
		When he was told that he would that day have his quarters at Casilinum, he saw the mistake and knew that Casinum was far away in quite another country.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Livy/Livy22.html (19120 words)

	Casinum-Cassino - Archeologia Italiana Forum
		Richieste e suggerimenti bibliografici Luogo dove inoltrare richieste bibliografiche, condividere quelle in vostro possesso con altri e dove annunciare l'uscita di nuove pubblicazioni inerenti archeologia, arte e storia antica
		Mi serve aiuto per la mia tesi di laurea-forse Qualcuno mi puo' indicare qualche libro che tratti del antico Casinum (Cassino-FR)?
		Adesso dispongo di tantissimi titoli che trattano di antico Casinum.
	www.archeologia.com /forum/richieste-suggerimenti-bibliografici/136-casinum-cassino.html (114 words)

	Centro Rapporti Internazionali - Università di CASSINO
		The modern city has no architectural monuments worth mentioning.
		The ancient Oscan city Casinum was famous in Roman times for its hot springs.
		During the Republic and Empire, it was an important commercial and military centre.
	www.unicas.it /centri/rapint/guida1en.htm (757 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.03.06
		There is little reason to believe that they should have.
		Yet on the same page, in noting the public-spirited generosity of women he mentions that of Ummidia Quadratilla, for him merely "an acquaintance of the younger Pliny", at Casinum.
		There is no suggestion of how high and mighty were the Ummidii (see R. Syme, Historia 17 (1968) 72-105 = Rom.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1994/94.03.06.html (2830 words)

	The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although in this particular I admit that you have been more fortunate than I. No one has ever made me his heir except he was a friend of mine, in order that my grief of mind for his loss might be accompanied also with some gain, if it was to be considered as such.
		But a man whom you never even saw, Lucius Rubrius, of Casinum, made you his heir.
		I wish you would tell me, if it is not too much trouble, what sort of countenance Lucius Turselius was of; what sort of height; from what municipal town he came; and of what tribe he was a member.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books143c/cicerofour.htm (19374 words)

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