BU´TRIUM
BU´TRIUM (
Βούτριον), a town of Gallia Cispadana, placed by Strabo on the road from Ravenna to Altinum.
This is confirmed by the Tab. Peut., which places it 6 miles from Ravenna: Pliny also says that it was near the sea-coast, and calls it an Umbrian city. Strabo, on the other hand, says it was a colony or dependency of Ravenna. (
Strab. v. p.214;
Plin. Nat. 3.15. s. 20; Steph. Byz. s. v.
Βούτριον; Tab. Peut.) No remains of it are extant, and its site cannot be identified: there is a place still called
Budrio about 10 miles NE. of
Bologna, but this is much too far from the sea-coast: the ancient Butrium must have been near the entrance of the lagunes of
Comacchio. The Butrium mentioned by Ptolemy (
3.1.31) among the cities of the Cenomani, in conjunction with Tridentum, must have been quite a different place.
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