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LUCERIA

Volume 10 · 53 words · 1797 Edition

anc. geogr.), a town of Apulia in Italy; which in Strabo's time still exhibited marks of Diomed's. Lucerius Diomed's sovereignty in those parts. Ptolemy has Nuceria; whether from mistake, or the custom of his time, uncertain. Now Nocera de Pagani, in the kingdom of Naples. E. Long. 15°. O. N. Lat. 40°. 40.