Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Sardes, Saturnia

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Saturnia

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An ancient name of Italy. (See Italia; Saturnus.)

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Now Saturnia, formerly called Aurinia; an ancient town of Etruria, said to have been founded by the Pelasgians, was situated in the territory of Caletra, on the road from Rome to Cosa, about twenty miles from the sea (Pliny , Pliny H. N. iii. 52).

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See Saturnius.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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