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ANTIUM

Volume 2 · 110 words · 1823 Edition

ANTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a city of the Volsci, (Livy); situated on the Tuscan sea, yet with- out a harbour, because they had a neighbouring ham- let called Ceno, with a harbour, (Strabo). The Ro- mans gained their first reputation in naval affairs a- gainst the Antiates; part of whose ships they convey- ed into the arsenal of Rome, and part they burnt; and with their beaks or rostra adorned the pulpit erected in the forum, thence called Rostra, (Livy, Florus). Here stood a famous temple of Fortune, (Horace). Addison says, there were two Fortune worshipped at Antium.β€”It is now extinct, but the name still remains in the Capo d'Anzo.