PU´NICUM
PU´NICUM (
Sta Marinella), a village or station on the coast of Etruria, mentioned only in the Tabula, which places it 6 miles beyond Pyrgi (
Sta Severa) on the Via Aurelia; and this distance enables us to fix its site at the modern village or hamlet of
Sta Marinella, where there are still some traces of a Roman port, and more extensive remains of a Roman villa in the immediate neighbourhood (
Tab. Peut.; Nibby,
Dintorni di Roma. vol. ii. p. 313; Dennis's
Etruria, vol. ii. p. 7.)
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