in antiquity, an altar erected, among the Romans, near the gate of a person deceased, on which his friends daily offered incense, till his burial.—The Chinese have still a custom like this; they erect an altar to the deceased in a room hung with mourning, and place an image of the dead person on the altar, to which every one that approaches it bows four times, and offers oblations and perfumes.

in geography, a town of Italy in the kingdom of Naples, and in the terra di Lavoro. It stands on the river Agno, 7 miles N. E. of Naples, and 20 S. W. of Benevento, lon. 14. 23. lat. 40. 55.