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Encyclopedia Britannica



VENAFRUM

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 980 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VENAFRUM , an ancient town of Campania, Italy, close to the boundaries of both Latium adjectum and Samnium. Its site is occupied by the
modern
  Venafro, a
village
  with 4716 inhabitants (1901), on the railway from Isernia to Caianello, 15 m. S.W.. of the former, 658 ft. above sea-level. Ancient authors tell us but little about it, except that it was one of those towns governed by a prefect sent yearly from Rome, and that in the Social War it was taken by the
allies
  by treachery.
Augustus
  founded a colony there and provided for the construction of an aqueduct (cf. the
long
  decree relating to it in Corp. Insets Lat. x. No. 4842). It seems to have been a place of some importance. Its olive oil was the best in Italy, and Cato mentions its brickworks and iron manufactures. The
original
  line of the Via
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 Aesernia and to
Telesia
 . by way of Allifae. Of ancient remains hardly anything is leftsome traces of an
amphitheatre
  and fragments of polygonal walls only. (T. As.)


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