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158 FESCENNIUM. [chap. vih.
Seven miles north of Corchiano, on the road to Orte,
is Bassanello, perhaps an Etruscan site. There is nothing
of interest here; but half-way between it and Corchiano,
is a deserted town called Aleano or Liano, alias Sta.
Bruna, from a ruined church on the site. The walls and
other ruins, as far as I could see, are medieval, highly
picturesque ; but there are tombs of more ancient date in
the cliffs beneath the walls, and in the neighbourhood. In
many parts of this road you trace the Via Amerina, by the
line of basaltic blocks, running almost due 1ST. and S., and in
one part, near the Puntone del Ponte, you tread the ancient
pavement for some distance.
Three miles from Corchiano and nine from Civita Cas-
tellana, lies Gallese, the town which has been supposed to
occupy the site of Pescennium.6 It stands, as usual, on a
mass of rock at the junction of two ravines. It has evidently
been an Etruscan site, and though no walls of that con-
struction are extant, there are several sewers in the cliffs
beneath the town, and plenty of tombs in the rocks around.
Within the walls are a few Roman remains, fragments of
columns, inscriptions, and bas-reliefs, but nothing which
throws light on the ancient name of the place. This, how-
ever, has been determined by a worthy canonico of Gallese,
recently deceased, to be the jEquum Faliscum, mentioned
by Strabo, Virgil, and Italicus,7 and he wrote a work
thereon, still in manuscript, entitled, " La Antica Palisca,
o sia notizie istoriche della citta di Gallese, dal Canonico
Teologo Amanzio Nardoni." His is not a new idea, for on
the front of the Palazzo Comunale or Town-hall is inscribed—
SjECULA dum vitent bubabit vita Phahscis.
6 Spanheim (cited by Lanzi, Saggio, 695. Sil. ItaL VIII. 491. The last
II. p. 65) seems alone in the opinion two, however, refer the name to the
that Gallese was the ancient Falerii. race, rather than to any locality.
7 Strabo, V. p. 226. Virg. Mn. VII.
Seven miles north of Corchiano, on the road to Orte,
is Bassanello, perhaps an Etruscan site. There is nothing
of interest here; but half-way between it and Corchiano,
is a deserted town called Aleano or Liano, alias Sta.
Bruna, from a ruined church on the site. The walls and
other ruins, as far as I could see, are medieval, highly
picturesque ; but there are tombs of more ancient date in
the cliffs beneath the walls, and in the neighbourhood. In
many parts of this road you trace the Via Amerina, by the
line of basaltic blocks, running almost due 1ST. and S., and in
one part, near the Puntone del Ponte, you tread the ancient
pavement for some distance.
Three miles from Corchiano and nine from Civita Cas-
tellana, lies Gallese, the town which has been supposed to
occupy the site of Pescennium.6 It stands, as usual, on a
mass of rock at the junction of two ravines. It has evidently
been an Etruscan site, and though no walls of that con-
struction are extant, there are several sewers in the cliffs
beneath the town, and plenty of tombs in the rocks around.
Within the walls are a few Roman remains, fragments of
columns, inscriptions, and bas-reliefs, but nothing which
throws light on the ancient name of the place. This, how-
ever, has been determined by a worthy canonico of Gallese,
recently deceased, to be the jEquum Faliscum, mentioned
by Strabo, Virgil, and Italicus,7 and he wrote a work
thereon, still in manuscript, entitled, " La Antica Palisca,
o sia notizie istoriche della citta di Gallese, dal Canonico
Teologo Amanzio Nardoni." His is not a new idea, for on
the front of the Palazzo Comunale or Town-hall is inscribed—
SjECULA dum vitent bubabit vita Phahscis.
6 Spanheim (cited by Lanzi, Saggio, 695. Sil. ItaL VIII. 491. The last
II. p. 65) seems alone in the opinion two, however, refer the name to the
that Gallese was the ancient Falerii. race, rather than to any locality.
7 Strabo, V. p. 226. Virg. Mn. VII.