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ΟΡΒΙΕΤΟ (Πόλη) ΟΥΜΒΡΙΑ
Urbs Vetus (Orvieto), a city of Etruria mentioned by Paulus Diaconus
(Hist. Lang. iv. 33) together with Balneum Regis (Bagnarea) in the same neighbourhood.
No mention of either name occurs in any writer before the fall of the Roman Empire,
but it is probable that the Urbiventum (Ourbibenton) of Procopius, which figures
in the Gothic Wars as a fortress of some importance, is the same place as the
Urbs Vetus of P. Diaconus. (Procop. B. G. ii. 20.) There is no doubt that the
modern name of Orvieto is derived from Urbs Vetus; but the latter is evidently
an appellation given in late times, and it is doubtful what was the original name
of the city thus designated. Niebuhr supposes it to be Salpinum, noticed by Livy
in B.C. 389 (Liv. v. 31; Niebuhr, vol. ii. p. 493), while Italian antiquaries
in general identify it with Herbanum. But both suggestions are mere conjectures.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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