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ohap, xn.] SUERINA. 199
neatness and cleanliness of Viterbo—to the Tuscan cha-
racter of its architecture—to its well-paved, ever dry streets
—to its noble fountains, proverbial for their beauty—all
so many evidences of its vicinity to the frontier of the
more civilised Dukedom—and above all in importance to
the traveller, to the comfort and civility experienced in the
spacious hotel of the Aquila Nera, which he should make
his head-quarters while exploring the antiquities of the
neighbourhood.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XII.
Note I.—Subbina.
The existence of a " Surrina Nova " is made known by sundry in-
scriptions, most of which have been found in the neighbourhood. In
some we find " Surrinenses" (Muratori, 201, 6, and 1083, 8); in
another " Sorrinenses Novenses," (Mariani, de Etrur. Metrop. p. 125).
" Sorr." occurs in a fragment in the house of the Cristofori at Viterbo,
and " Sorr. Nov." in an inscription in the church of S. Plaviano at Monte
Fiascone. The names of Surina, and Civitas Surinas, were attached to the
place in the middle ages; and Surianum is said often to occur in old docu-
ments. Orioli (Nouvel. Ann. Inst. 1836, p. 41) says, the town of Surrina
Nova stood half a mile from Viterbo, just where Annio placed it, between
the Grotta di Riello, the stream of the Arcione, and the modern baths,
where are numerous ruins, and traces of a town, so manifest that one must
be blind not to perceive them. The same author, in opposition to
Marini (Frat. Arval. II. p. 424), who referred Surrina Nova to Soriano
on the eastern slope of the Ciminian, would rather consider that town to be
the Surrina Vetus, from which this, distinguished as Nova, may have been
originally peopled. But to me it appears more probable, that the old
town of this name was that on the very site of Viterbo, on the heights
of the Cathedral, as already stated, and that when the Roman settlement
was made on the lower ground, indicated by Orioli, it received the epithet
of " Nova," while that on the original site was distinguished only as
" the old town,"—vetus urbs—of which Viterbo is obviously a derivative.
In the seventh and eighth centuries, says Inghirami, (Mem. Inst. IV.
neatness and cleanliness of Viterbo—to the Tuscan cha-
racter of its architecture—to its well-paved, ever dry streets
—to its noble fountains, proverbial for their beauty—all
so many evidences of its vicinity to the frontier of the
more civilised Dukedom—and above all in importance to
the traveller, to the comfort and civility experienced in the
spacious hotel of the Aquila Nera, which he should make
his head-quarters while exploring the antiquities of the
neighbourhood.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XII.
Note I.—Subbina.
The existence of a " Surrina Nova " is made known by sundry in-
scriptions, most of which have been found in the neighbourhood. In
some we find " Surrinenses" (Muratori, 201, 6, and 1083, 8); in
another " Sorrinenses Novenses," (Mariani, de Etrur. Metrop. p. 125).
" Sorr." occurs in a fragment in the house of the Cristofori at Viterbo,
and " Sorr. Nov." in an inscription in the church of S. Plaviano at Monte
Fiascone. The names of Surina, and Civitas Surinas, were attached to the
place in the middle ages; and Surianum is said often to occur in old docu-
ments. Orioli (Nouvel. Ann. Inst. 1836, p. 41) says, the town of Surrina
Nova stood half a mile from Viterbo, just where Annio placed it, between
the Grotta di Riello, the stream of the Arcione, and the modern baths,
where are numerous ruins, and traces of a town, so manifest that one must
be blind not to perceive them. The same author, in opposition to
Marini (Frat. Arval. II. p. 424), who referred Surrina Nova to Soriano
on the eastern slope of the Ciminian, would rather consider that town to be
the Surrina Vetus, from which this, distinguished as Nova, may have been
originally peopled. But to me it appears more probable, that the old
town of this name was that on the very site of Viterbo, on the heights
of the Cathedral, as already stated, and that when the Roman settlement
was made on the lower ground, indicated by Orioli, it received the epithet
of " Nova," while that on the original site was distinguished only as
" the old town,"—vetus urbs—of which Viterbo is obviously a derivative.
In the seventh and eighth centuries, says Inghirami, (Mem. Inst. IV.