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The fifth region is that of Picenum, once remarkable for the denseness of its population; 360,000 Picentines took the oaths of fidelity to the Roman people. They are descended from the Sabines, who had made a vow to celebrate a holy spring [Note]. Their territory commenced at the river Aternus [Note], where the present district and colony of Adria [Note] is, at a distance of six miles from the sea. Here we find the river Vomanus, the territories of Prætutia and Palma [Note], Castrum Novum [Note],
the river Batinus; Truentum [Note], with its river of the same name, which place is the only remnant of the Liburni [Note] in Italy; the river Albula [Note]; Tervium, at which the Prætutian district ends, and that of Picenum begins; the town of Cupra [Note], Castellum Firmanorum [Note], and above it the colony of Asculum [Note], the most illustrious in Picenum; in the interior there is the town of Novana [Note]. Upon the coast we have Cluana [Note], Potentia, Numana, founded by the Siculi, and Ancona [Note], a colony founded by the same people on the Promontory of Cumerus, forming an elbow of the coast, where it begins to bend in- wards, and distant from Garganus 183 miles. In the interior
are the Auximates [Note], the Beregrani [Note], the Cingulani, the Cuprenses surnamed Montani [Note], the Falarienses [Note], the Pausulani, the Planinenses, the Ricinenses, the Septempedani [Note], the Tollentinates, the Treienses, and the Pollentini of Urbs Salvia [Note].
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