TARVI´SIUM
TARVI´SIUM (
Ταρβίσιον: Eth.
Tarvisianus:
Treviso), a town of Northern Italy, in the province of Venetia, situated on the left bank of the river Silis (
Sele), about 15 miles from its mouth.
The name is not mentioned by any of the geographers, though Pliny speaks of the Silis as flowing “ex montibus Tarvisanis,” in a manner that would lead us to suppose it to have been a municipal town (
Plin. Nat. 3.18. s. 22), and this is confirmed by an inscription given by Muratori (
Inscr. p. 328).
After the fall of the Western Empire it appears as a considerable city, and is repeatedly noticed by Procopius during the Gothic Wars, as well as by Cassiodorus and Paulus Diaconus. (Cassiod.
Var. 10.27; Procop.
B. G. 2.29, 3.1, 2; P. Diac.
Hist. Lang. 2.12, 4.3, 5.28, &c.)
It retained this consideration throughout the middle ages, and is still a flouishing city under the name of
Treviso. [
E.H.B]
