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CLUSIUM

Volume 17 · 80 words · 1810 Edition

anciently called Camar, (Virgil, Livy); a town of Tuscany, at the south end of the Palus Clusina, where it forms the Clanis; the royal residence of Porfenna, three days journey from Rome to the north, (Polybius). Clusinius the epithet. Clusini Veteres the people. Now Chianna. E. Long. 13°, Lat. 43°.—Clusium Novum, was a town of Tuscany, near the springs of the Tiber, in the territory of Arretium; where lies the Ager Clusinus; now called Casetino. Clusini Novi, the people, (Pliny).