Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

Ch. IV. THROUGH ITALY. 149
king of the African Vandals. It never recovered
from this catastrophe, and has remained a heap
of uninhabited ruins ever since.
The modern town was built about the middle
of the ninth century by the count, and the bishop
of the title of Capua, on the site of the ancient
Casilinum remarkable for its fidelity to the Ro-
mans in the second Punic war, but decayed and
sunk into insignificance even in the time of Pliny.
This city is neither large nor well-built, and con-
tains no very remarkable edifice ; its greatest re-
commendation is its name. The cathedral sup-
ported by pillars of granite collected from the
neighboring ruins ·, and the church of the Annon-
ziata, supposed to be an ancient temple, though
much disfigured by modern decorations, deserve
a visit. The Vulturnus bathes the walls, a river
now as formerly, rapid, muddy, and in some
places shallow: thus it still retains both its name
and its characteristic qualities.
, ......multamque trahens sub gurgite arenam
Vulturous. Ovid. Met. xv.
We here entered the Falernian territory, and
as we drove over its delicious plain we contem-
plated on the right Mount Callicula, and in front
Mount Massicus, both remarkable, independently