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Encyclopedia Britannica



AQUINO

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 252 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
AQUINO , a town and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta; it is 56 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Caserta, and 72 M. N.W. of Cassino. Pop. (1901) 2672. The modern town, close to the ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the
cathedral
  have the privilege of wearing the mitre and cappa magna at
great
  festivals. It is close to the site of the ancient Aquinum, a municipium in the time of Cicero, and made a colony by the Triumviri, the birthplace of Juvenal and of the emperor Pescennius Niger. The Via
Latina
  traversed it; one of the gates through which it passed, now called Porta S. Lorenzo, is still well preserved, and there are remains within the walls (portions of which, built of large blocks of limestone, still remain) of two (so called) temples, a basilica and an
amphitheatre
  (see R.
Delbruck
  in Rom. Mitteilungen, 1903, p. 143). Outside, on the
south
  is a well-preserved triumphal arch with composite capitals, and close to it the lrth-century basilica of S. Maria Libera, a handsome building in the Romanesque style, but now roofless. Several Roman
inscriptions
  are built into it, and many others that have been found indicate the ancient importance of the place, which, though it does not appear in early history, is vouched for by Cicero and Strabo.' A colony was planted here by the Triumviri. St
Thomas
  Aquinas was born in the castle of Roccasecca, 5 M. N.
See E.
Grossi
 , Aquinum (Rome, 1907). (T. As.)


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