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Fl. Volturnus
Volturno
The Volturnus, today the Volturno, is the great river of Campania, drawn on the map at a road station but not named, and without its upper course. It comes down from the Apennines, takes in the Calor near Beneventum, passes Capua and reaches the Tyrrhenian Sea at the town of Volturnum. Roman poets called it swift, wild and yellow with the earth it carried, and its name was taken to mean the rolling river. Unusually, the Romans gave it a place of its own in their public worship, an honour not even the Po received.