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ANXUR

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in Ancient Geography, a city of the Volsci, in Latium; called Tarracina, by the Greeks; and Latins: Now Terracina; situated on an eminence (Livy, Horace, Sil. Italicus). Ancura, a citizen of Anxur (Livy). And the epithet Anxurus, a name of Jupiter, worshipped without a beard at Anxur (Virgil). Though others read Anxur, or Axyrus, without a razor. E. Long. 14. 5. Lat. 41. 18.