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CERVETRI.
[chap, xxxiii.
rather than by the excuse then urged, listened to their
prayer and granted them a truce for-a hundred years.10 It
is highly probable that the Cserites paid the penalty of
their error by the loss of their independence, for we have
no record of any further conquest of them by the Romans;
indeed, we next hear of Csere as a Roman dependency,
providing corn and other provisions for the fleet of Scipio,
in the year 549,1 and otherwise assisting in the Second
Punic War.2
At the commencement of the Empire this "splendid and
illustrious city" had sunk into utter insignificance, retaining
mere vestiges of past greatness, being even surpassed in
population by the Thermae Cseretanse—the hot baths in the
neighbourhood, which the Romans frequented for health's
sake.3 It again revived, however, as appears from monu-
ments and inscriptions found on the spot, and became a
municipium.* Nor was it at any period wholly blotted
10 Liv. VII. 19, 20.
1 Liv. XXVIII. 45.
2 SO. Ital. VIII. 474.
3 Strabo, V. p. 220. Now the Bagni
del Sasso, so called from a remarkable
bare crag on the summit of the neigh-
bouring mountain. It is about 4 miles
west of Ceryetri, and is visible from
the road between StaSevera and Palo.
Mannert (Geog. p. 379) places the
Aquse Cseretanse at Ceri. Cluver (II.
p. 493) confounds them with the Aquse
Apollinaris, on the upper road from
Rome to Tarquinii, now the Bagni
di Stigliano; and the Table favours his
view. Westphal (Rom. Kamp. p. 160)
also regards these names as identical.
But Holstenius (Annot. ad Cluv. p. 35)
distinguishes between the two Aquse,
placing one at Stigliano, the other at
Bagni del Sasso. Cluver thinks that
Martial (VI. 42) refers to the Aquse
Apollinaris under the name of " Phoebi
Vada." Gell (v. Agylla) mistakes the
Careise of the Itinerary for Csere; but it
is evidently the station on the Via Clodia,
now called Galera. See Vol. I. p. 77.
ANTONINE
ITINERARY.
Roma
Careias XV.
Aquas Apol-
linaris XVIIII.
Tarquinios XII.
PEUTINGERIAN
TABLE.
Roma
Lorio XII-
Bebiana —
Turres —
Aquas Apol-
linaris VIII.
Tarquinis XII.
4 Festus v. Municipium. Gruter, pp.
215, 1; 485, 5 ; cf. 235, 9. Cluver, II.
p. 493. Bull. Inst., 1840, pp. 5—8.—
Canina. In excavations made in 1840 on
the site of the city, some beautiful marble
statues of Tiberius, Drusus, Germanicus,
and Agrippina were discovered, together
with that singular bas-relief with the
names and emblems of three Etruscan
CERVETRI.
[chap, xxxiii.
rather than by the excuse then urged, listened to their
prayer and granted them a truce for-a hundred years.10 It
is highly probable that the Cserites paid the penalty of
their error by the loss of their independence, for we have
no record of any further conquest of them by the Romans;
indeed, we next hear of Csere as a Roman dependency,
providing corn and other provisions for the fleet of Scipio,
in the year 549,1 and otherwise assisting in the Second
Punic War.2
At the commencement of the Empire this "splendid and
illustrious city" had sunk into utter insignificance, retaining
mere vestiges of past greatness, being even surpassed in
population by the Thermae Cseretanse—the hot baths in the
neighbourhood, which the Romans frequented for health's
sake.3 It again revived, however, as appears from monu-
ments and inscriptions found on the spot, and became a
municipium.* Nor was it at any period wholly blotted
10 Liv. VII. 19, 20.
1 Liv. XXVIII. 45.
2 SO. Ital. VIII. 474.
3 Strabo, V. p. 220. Now the Bagni
del Sasso, so called from a remarkable
bare crag on the summit of the neigh-
bouring mountain. It is about 4 miles
west of Ceryetri, and is visible from
the road between StaSevera and Palo.
Mannert (Geog. p. 379) places the
Aquse Cseretanse at Ceri. Cluver (II.
p. 493) confounds them with the Aquse
Apollinaris, on the upper road from
Rome to Tarquinii, now the Bagni
di Stigliano; and the Table favours his
view. Westphal (Rom. Kamp. p. 160)
also regards these names as identical.
But Holstenius (Annot. ad Cluv. p. 35)
distinguishes between the two Aquse,
placing one at Stigliano, the other at
Bagni del Sasso. Cluver thinks that
Martial (VI. 42) refers to the Aquse
Apollinaris under the name of " Phoebi
Vada." Gell (v. Agylla) mistakes the
Careise of the Itinerary for Csere; but it
is evidently the station on the Via Clodia,
now called Galera. See Vol. I. p. 77.
ANTONINE
ITINERARY.
Roma
Careias XV.
Aquas Apol-
linaris XVIIII.
Tarquinios XII.
PEUTINGERIAN
TABLE.
Roma
Lorio XII-
Bebiana —
Turres —
Aquas Apol-
linaris VIII.
Tarquinis XII.
4 Festus v. Municipium. Gruter, pp.
215, 1; 485, 5 ; cf. 235, 9. Cluver, II.
p. 493. Bull. Inst., 1840, pp. 5—8.—
Canina. In excavations made in 1840 on
the site of the city, some beautiful marble
statues of Tiberius, Drusus, Germanicus,
and Agrippina were discovered, together
with that singular bas-relief with the
names and emblems of three Etruscan