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VENAFRUM , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, See also:close to the boundaries of both See also:Latium adjectum and Samnium. Its site is occupied by the See also:modern Venafro, a See also:village with 4716 inhabitants (1901), on the railway from Isernia to Caianello, 15 m. S.W.. of the former, 658 ft. above See also:sea-level. Ancient authors tell us but little about it, except that it was one of those towns governed by a See also:prefect sent yearly from See also:Rome, and that in the Social See also:War it was taken by the See also:allies by treachery. See also:Augustus founded a See also:colony there and provided for the construction of an See also:aqueduct (cf. the See also:long See also:decree See also:relating to it in Corp. Insets See also:Lat. x. No. 4842). It seems to have been a See also:place of some importance. Its See also:olive oil was the best in Italy, and See also:Cato mentions its brickworks and See also:iron manufactures. The See also:original See also:line of the Via See also:Latina probably ran through Venafrum, making a detour, which the later road seems to have avoided (cf. LATINA, VIA). Rufrae was probably dependent on it. Roads also ran from Venafrum to See also:Aesernia and to See also:Telesia. by way of See also:Allifae. Of ancient remains hardly anything is See also:left—some traces of an See also:amphitheatre and fragments of polygonal walls only. (T. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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