CONSILI´NUM
CONSILI´NUM or
COSILL´NUM, a town of Lucania, mentioned only in the Liber Coloniarum, which enumerates it among the Praefecturae of that province (p. 209), and by Cassiodorus (
Varr. 8.33), who calls it “antiquissima civitas.” We learn from the latter that a great. fair was held every year in a suburb of the town, to which he gives the name of Marcilianum.
This is in all probability the same place called in the Itinerary Marcelliana (
Itin. Ant. p. 110), and a local antiquary has pointed out a spot still called
Marciliana, between
La Sala and
Padula, in the valley of the
Tanagro, where there is a remarkable fountain, corresponding to one mentioned by Cassiodorus.
The situation of Consilinum is said to be indicated by some ruins on a hill near
Padula. (Romanelli, vol. i. pp. 405--409.)
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