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It was stormed by the Romans in 293 BC . It lay at the point of junction of four roads: the Via Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova and two branches of the Via Salaria. There are considerable remains of an amphitheatre and a theatre, all of which belong to the imperial period, while on the hill of the sourronding village of S. Vittorino there are some Christian Catacombs . Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust . REFERENCES |