BELU´NUM
BELU´NUM or
BELLUNUM (
Βελοῦνον), a considerable town in the interior of Venetia, still called
Belluno. It was situated in the upper valley of the Plavis (
Piave), about 20 miles NE. of Feltria, and almost on the borders of Rhaetia.
It was probably in ancient as well as modern times the capital of the surrounding district. (
Plin. Nat. 3.19. s. 23;
Ptol. 3.1.30; P. Diac. 6.26; Orell.
Inscr. 69.)
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