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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLIII: Last Victory And Death Of Belisarius, Death Of Justinian
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614) exchanges, for the field of Taginas, the unknown appellation of Ptanias, eight miles from Nocera.] [Footnote 35: Taginae, or rather Tadinae, is mentioned by Pliny; but the bishopric of that obscure town, a mile from Gualdo, in the plain, was united, in the year 1007, with that of Nocera.

The signs of antiquity are preserved in the local appellations, Fossato, the camp; Capraia, Caprea; Bastia, Busta Gallorum.

See Cluverius, (Italia Antiqua, l.

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6, p.


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