. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. troyed by Tullus Hos- J , W f^, _ tilius. Lanuvium,! Ct ydaLavinia, on a southernspur of the Alban Hills,about 20 miles fromRome, a member of theLatin League, but stillmore famed for its tem-ple of Juno Sospita,- andas the birth-place of An-toninus Pius, who madeit his Qccasional resi-dence. Velitrae, Yelletri,on a Southern spur of theAlban Hills, overlookingthe Pontine Marshes, pro-bably a member of theLatin League, thoughotherwise regarded as aYolscian town, and anactive opponent of Romein th
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. troyed by Tullus Hos- J , W f^, _ tilius. Lanuvium,! Ct ydaLavinia, on a southernspur of the Alban Hills,about 20 miles fromRome, a member of theLatin League, but stillmore famed for its tem-ple of Juno Sospita,- andas the birth-place of An-toninus Pius, who madeit his Qccasional resi-dence. Velitrae, Yelletri,on a Southern spur of theAlban Hills, overlookingthe Pontine Marshes, pro-bably a member of theLatin League, thoughotherwise regarded as aYolscian town, and anactive opponent of Romein the Latin AVars, sub-sequently an ordinarymunicipal town, and the native place of the Octavian family, fromwhich the Emperor Augustus was descended. Signia, Serjni, on alofty hill at the angle of the Volscian Hills, founded by Tar-quinius Superbus. and, with few exceptions, a faithful dependent ofIvome, chiefly noted in later tiines for its astringent wine ^ used formedicinal purposes, its pears and vegetables, and a kind of cementknown as opus Signinumits Cyclopean walls may still be traced,. Gatewav of Signia. - It is said to have fallen tliroiigli a law imposing silence on its inhabitants inreference to any report of an enemy approaching :— Magnanimo Tolscente satum, clitissimus agriQui fuit Ausonidum, et tacit is regnavit Amyclis.—^En. x. 563.^ The name was connected with the tradition of a Mhite sow appearing to^Eneas : — Ex quo ter denis nrbem redenntibus annis Ascanius clari condet cognominis Albam. Id. viii. 47. - The names Lanuvium and Lavinium are constantly interchanged in earlyEoman history ; the modern name affords a further illustration of this. - Lanuvio generate, inquit, quem Sospita Juno Dat nobis, IMilo, Gradivi cape victor honorem. Sil. Ital. xiii. Qucs Cora, quos spumans inmiti Signia niusto.—Id. viii. 3SO. Potabis liq^uidum Signina morantia ventrem ; Xe nimium sistant, sit tibi parca sitis. Mart. xiii. 116. Chap. XXVI. 559 and there is a re
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