ANGULUS
ANGULUS >(
Ἀγγουλός: Eth.
Angulanus), a city of the Vestini, mentioned both by Pliny and Ptolemy, as well as in the Itin. Ant. (p. 313), where the name is written
Angelum, a corruption which appears to have early come into general use, and has given rise to a curious metamorphosis, the modern town retaining its ancient name as that of its patron saint: it is now called
Civita Sant Angelo. It is situated on a hill, about 4 miles from the Adriatic, and S. of the river Matrinus (
la Piomba) which separated the Vestini from the territory of Adria and Picenum. The Itinerary erroneously places it S. of the Aternus, in which case it would have belonged to the Frentani. (
Plin. Nat. 3.12. s. 17;
Ptol. 3.1.59; Cluver.
Ital. p. 751; Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 254.)
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