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MURANUM

Volume 14 · 55 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a town of the confines of Lucania. Now Morano; a citadel in Calabria Citra, at the springs of the Sybaris, midway between the Sinus Tarentinus to the east, and the Tuscan sea to the west. Supposed to have risen from the ruins of Syphneum, a town of the Bruttii mentioned by Livy.