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LITANA SILVA

Volume 12 · 72 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a wood of of the Boii, in Gallia Togata, or Cispadana, where the Romans, under L. Pothismus Albinus (whose head the Boii cut off, and carried in triumph into their most sacred temple), had a great defeat; of twenty-five thousand scarcely ten escaping (Livy). Holstenius conjectures, that this happened above the springs of the Scultenna, in a part of the Apennine, between Cerfinianum and Mutina. Now Selva di Lugo.