San Germano, now more generally called CASSINO, a town of Italy, standing 3 miles E. of the celebrated monastery of Monte Cassino (q.v.) and 69 miles NW. of Naples. It is built on the site and from the ruins of the ancient Volscian town of Casinum. The principal ruins are a monument and an amphitheatre. The first, now employed as a church, is built in the form of a Greek cross, constructed with enormous Cyclopean blocks of stone. Here, too, was Terentius Varro's villa, in which Antony lived for some time. Pop. 6380.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 146–147
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