Venosa, a town of South Italy, 25 miles N. of Potenza, with a ruined castle, an old abbey, a venerable church, and catacombs. Pop. 8014. It was the ancient Venusia, Horace's birthplace.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 454
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