LITANA SILVA, in Ancient Geography, a wood
Litana
Silva
Litchfield
of the Boii, in Gallia Togata, or Cispadana, where the Romans, under L. Posthumius Albinus (whose head the Boii cut off, and carried in triumph into their most sacred temple), had a great defeat; of twenty-five thousand scarcely ten escaping (Livy). Holstenius conjectures, that this happened above the springs of the Scultanna, in a part of the Appennine, between Cersinianum and Mutina. Now Silva di Lugo.