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latium antiquum a tiberi cerceios servatum est m. p. l longitudine: tam tenues primordio imperi fuere radices. colonis saepe mutatis tenuere alii aliis temporibus, aborigines, pelasgi, arcades, siculi, aurunci, rutuli et ultra cerceios volsci, osci, ausones, unde nomen lati processit ad lirim amnem. in principio est ostia colonia ab romano rege deducta, oppidum laurentum, lucus iovis indigetis, amnis numicius, ardea a danae+ persei matre condita. dein quondam aphrodisium, antium colonia, astura flumen et insula, fluvius nymphaeus, clostra romana, cercei, quondam insula inmenso quidem mari circumdata, ut creditur homero, et nunc planitie. mirum est quod hac de re tradere hominum notitiae possumus. theophrastus, qui primus externorum aliqua de romanis diligentius scripsit - nam theopompus, ante quem nemo mentionem habuit, urbem dumtaxat a gallis captam dixit, clitarchus, ab eo proximus, legationem tantum ad alexandrum missam - hic iam plus quam ex fama cerceiorum insulae et mensuram posuit stadia lxxx in eo volumine, quod scripsit nicodoro atheniensium magistratu, qui fuit urbis nostrae ccccxl anno. quicquid ergo terrarum est praeter [x] p. ambitus adnexum insulae, post eum annum accessit italiae. aliud miraculum a cerceis palus pomptina est, quem locum xxiiii urbium fuisse mucianus ter consul prodidit. dein flumen aufentum, supra quod tarracina oppidum, lingua volscorum anxur dictum, et ubi fuere amyclae sive amynclae, a serpentibus deletae, dein locus speluncae, lacus fundanus, caieta portus, oppidum formiae, hormiae dictum, ut existimavere, antiqua laestrygonum sedes. ultra fuit oppidum pirae, est colonia minturnae, liri amne divisa, clani olim appellato, sinuessa, extremum in adiecto latio, quam quidam sinopen dixere vocitatam. hinc felix illa campania, ab hoc sinu incipiunt vitiferi colles et temulentia nobilis suco per omnes terras incluto atque, ut veteres dixere, summum liberi patris cum cerere certamen. hinc setini et caecubi protenduntur agri; his iunguntur falerni, caleni, dein consurgunt massici, gaurani surrentinique montes. ibi leborini campi sternuntur et in delicias alicae politur messis. haec litora fontibus calidis rigantur praeterque cetera in toto mari conchylio et pisce nobili adnotantur. nusquam generosior oleae liquor est, hoc quoque certamen humanae voluptatis. tenuere osci, graeci, vmbri, tusci, campani. in ora savo fluvius, volturnum oppidum cum amne, liternum, cumae chalcidensium, misenum, portus baiarum, bauli, lacus lucrinus et avernus, iuxta quem cimmerium oppidum quondam, dein puteoli colonia dicaearchea dicti, postque phlegraei campi, acherusia palus cumis vicina; litore autem neapolis, chalcidensium et ipsa, parthenope a tumulo sirenis appellata, herculaneum, pompei haud procul spectato monte vesuvio, adluente vero sarno amne, ager nucerinus et [viiii] p. a mari ipsa nuceria, surrentum cum promunturio minervae, sirenum quondam sede. navigatio a cerceis [ii] de [lxxx] patet. regio ea a tiberi prima italiae servatur ex discriptione Augusti.

Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.

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