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MUTINA

Volume 12 · 83 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a noble city of the Clippadana, made a Roman colony in the same year with Parma, situated between the rivers Gabellus and Scultenna, on the Via Emilia. Here D. Brutus, being besieged by Antony, was relieved by the consuls Hirtius and Panfa. The Greeks called it Mutine; except Polybius, in whom it is Moline; and in Ptolemy Mutina, after the Roman manner.—Now Modena, a city of Lombardy, and capital of a cognominal duchy. L. Long. ii. 20. N. Lat. 44° 45'.