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[3] Pisauri: Pisaurum (now Pesaro) was an Umbrian town on the Adriatic planted as a Roman colony B.C. 184 (cf. Liv. 39.44). Plutarch (Plut. Ant. 60) reports that the town was swallowed up by an earthquake just before the battle of Actium. The previous settlement there of a number of military colonists by Antony (Plut. l.c.) may have been an attempt to check the decay (moribunda sede) noted by Catullus.


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