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PLERA

PLERA a town of Apulia, situated on the branch of the Via Appia which led from Venusia direct to Tarentum. It is supposed to be represented by the modern Gravina. (Itin. Ant. p. 121; Holsten. Not. ad Cluv. p. 281.) The name is written in many MSS. Blera.

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