1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
AQUINO, a town and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta; it is 56 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Caserta, and 7^ m. N.W. of Cassino. Pop. (1901) 2672. The modern town, dose to the ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the cathedral have the privilege of wearing the mitre and cappa magna at great festivals. It is close to the site of the ancient Aquinum, a municipium in the time of Cicero, and made a colony by the Triumviri, the birthplace of Juvenal and of the emperor Pescennius Ni…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 252-252