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 FORUM SEMPROKII. •ti, which means lea^a or lea^ne. Thus, it appean that a road was measured from this Forum. It is also stated that the inscription c. iVL. f. sro. LIBERA, occors on these stones, or on some of them. From this the place appears to have been made a Colonia, with the title of Liberi, which Pliny (iv. "^^48) gives to the Se^iani. " The historian of the Fortz (Forest) mentions a Roman copper weight, on which werb marked in characters of silver dbab SKG. p., a dTCumstanoe which shows that the Fomm of the Segnsiani was deified, and accordingly had an hoooar which we know to have been conferred on several other towns in Ganl." (D*Anville.} The Table mentions Fomm Segnstavarom, on a road from S^odam {Rhodez) to Lngdnnum {Ljfon)^ and it is 4he next place to Lngdnnum. Fart of the route is this: — Icidmago (^Iateng€txux Aquis Se> geste, Foro Segustavamm, Lugdunum. Another route in the Table, between Augustonemetum (Cfer - mont) and Lugdunum, stands thus in the last part: — Rodamna (.AotiofiiM), Mediolanum (ifey/teu), Foro Segustavamm, Lugdunum. D'AnviUe (JSfoticej art. Mediolamm) supposes that Mediolanum is wrongly placed in the Table, and he inserts it between Fomm Segusianomm and Lugdunum. Walckenaer contends tibat the Table and its distances are right, that Fomm Segustavarum is a different place irom Fomm Segusianomm, and he places it in the neigh- bourhood of Fammf, The measures, he says, are Tery exact, as we may convince ourselves by seeing how he has applied them to our modem maps. But we give no confidence to these assertions. Segusta- Taram and Segusianomm are evidently the same word, and the difference in a few letters is easily ex- plained by their close resemblance, and the liability of one being put for the other. The district of Fortz or Forette is supposed to derive its name from Pagus Forensis, the canton of the F(ntim. Parts of the aqueduct which brought water to Fomm Segusianomm still remain. In one part the aqueduct is about 10 feet high to the spring of the ardi, and about 3 feet wide. The outer wall is formed of small red stones, and the inner part of fragments of the same stone embedded in cement. A very remarkable mosaic was dis- covered at Feurs a few years ago, imder the entrance door ci a house. There are also in the courts of the same house some Corinthian columns, which sup- port a staircase. The church of Feur$ appears to have been built with the materials of Roman ediBces. There are also remains of ancient baths near a part of the town called the Palais, Near this Palais were found, under the ground, the four milestones mentioned above. They are now placed in a part of the town, according to a recent authority, where they are much exposed to damage. (D'Anville, Notice, ^. ; Walckenaer, Geog. ^. vol. i. p. 332^ Ukert, GaUien; Richard et Hocquart, Gwde, ^'^K^' ^0 FORUM SEMPR0NII(*<{por2«;iirpa»y/&,Stmb.; ^6pos XifarptQvlovj Ptol.: Eth. Forosemproniensis: JPosfom^one), a town of Umbria, situated on the Flaminian Way, in the valley of the Metaums, 16 miles from Fanum Fortunae (/Vzno), on the Adriatic (Stcmb. V. p. 227 ; Jiin, Afit, p. 125.) We have no account of its foundation, or the origin of its name : but it was the only town in the valley of the Me- taums, between its mouth and the central range of the Apennines; and from this circumstance, and its position OD so frequented a highroad, it seems to have risen into a place of some importance, and was a flourishing ipunidpal town under the Roman em- FORUM VOCONIL 911 pire. (Strab. I, c; PUn. iii. 14. s. 19; Ptol. ili. 1. § 53; Orell. Inter. 3774, 4039, 4063.) The site of the ancient city is marked by the vestiges of a theatre, and other mins of Roman date, which are visible about 2 miles from the modem city of Fos- sombrone: this last retains the ancient episcopal see, and its name is evidently a mere cormption of Forum SempraniL (Calindri, Statiitica del Pontiff StatOj p. 121.) The latter was 8 miles distant from the celebrated pass of Intercisa, or the Furh. [Ik- TERCISA.] The great battle in which Hasdmbal was defeated by the Roman consuls Livius and Nera in B. c. 207, was probably fought in the neighbour- hood of Fomm Sempronii, but the exact site is un- certain. [Mhtaurus.] [£. H. B.] FORUk TIBERU, is placed by Ptolemy (ii. 9) among the Helvetii. It is unknown where it is. D'Anville guesses Kctiserttuhl on the Rhine, chiefly because of the meaning of the German name; which is very unsatisfactory. Haller guesses Zureach on the Rhine, where there are Roman walls. Another guesses StecJAom on the Lake of ConeUmz, (Ukert, Gaaien.') [G.L.] FORUM TRAJANI, a town in the interior of Sardinia, known only from the Itinerarin, which place it on the road from Tibula, through the inte- rior of the island, to Othoca. (/rm. AnU p. 82.) Its site is fixed at a place called Fcrdongiannta, on the left bank of the river 7Vr«i (Thyrsus), about 16 miles from OrisUxno, where there are cmslderable Roman remains, including those of a bridge, and of Thermae on a scale of great magnificence. These doubtless owe their origin to the emperor Trajan. (Val^iy, Fby. en Sardoigne^ vol. ii. c. 36). [E.H.B.] FORUM TRUENTINORUM or DRUENTl- NORUM, a town of Gallia Cispadana, mentioned by Pliny among the municipal towns of that region (iii. 15. s. 20). His authority is confirmed by inscriptions, in which we find " Municipium Foro- draent.," fbr Forodmentinoram. As the name is not moitioned in the Itineraries it seems clear that it was not situated on the Via Aemilia, and it has been supposed to occupy the site of BertinorOy a small episcopal towH about 3 miles S. of Forlim' popoli; this however is a mere conjecture. (Gmter, Inecr. pp. 492. 5, 1094. 2; Orell. Inscr. 80; Cluver, JtaL p. 295.) [E. H. B,] FORUM VIBil (Vibi Fomm, Plin. iii. 17. s. 21 : Eth, Forovibiensis, Id. 16. s. 20), a small town of Liguria, near the sources of the Padus, and in the territory of the Vagienni. Pliny tells us that the Padus had its source in the Mens Vesulus {^Monte Fifo), and, after flowing a short distance, plunged under the ground, and again emei^ed " in Forovibi- ensium agro." (Plin. iii. 1 6. s. 20 ; Sollu. 2. § 25.) As there Ib no troth in tiiis account of the subterraneous couTBc of the Padus, it affords us no assistance in determining the real position of Fomm Vibii, which must have been situated somewhere in the upper valley of that river, in the neighbourhood of Salvszo, but on the N. ba^k of the Po, as Pliny (iii. 17. s. 21) reckons it in the Regie Transpadana. [E.H.B.] FORUM VOCONII, a pkce in Gallia Narbonensis, distant from Fomm Julii [Fobum Julii; Aroeh- TEUs] 24 M. P., as it appears from the letter of Plancus to Cicero. The Antonine It in. also makes the distance the same. D'Anville fixes Forum Vo- conii at a place called Gonfaron, which he supposes to be a cormption of such a word .is P'ocofi-tbron, which he Invents fbr the occasion. Papon, who is followed by Walckenaer, fixes it at Le Canetj and