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LITANA SILVA

Volume 12 · 75 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a wood of of the Boii, in Gallia Togata, or Cispadana, where the Romans, under L. Posthumius 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). Hol- stenius conjectures, that this happened above the springs of the Scultenna, in a part of the Appen- nine, between Cersinianum and Mutina. Now Selva di Lugio.