a town in the Austrian division of Italy, at the foot of the Vicentine Hills, the ancient Montes Euganei. It is visited by invalids for the benefit of its baths, which were well known to the ancients, and are noticed by Martial and Claudian as Fontes Aponi. There are five thermal springs, viz., Fonte d'Abano, Mont'Ortone, San Pietro, Monte Gratto, and San Bartolomeo, beside the hot mud bath, Bagno di Fango; which latter is considered more efficacious for the cure of diseases than the springs. These springs rise through tertiary strata, resting on trap-porphyry, which Bréslac considers of volcanic origin. Besides their medicinal virtues, Suetonius relates that they were frequented for the purposes of divination by means of tali cast into the basin of the fountain. Suet. Tib. xiv. Claud. Idyll. 6.