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, now Polenza , a town of Liguria in Italy, famous for wool. There was a celebrated battle fought there between the Romans and Alaric king of the Huns, about the 403rd year of the christian era, in which the former, according to some, obtained the victory. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Pliny , bk. 8 , ch. 48 .— Suet on i us , Tiberius , ch. 37 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 8 , li. 598 .— Cicero , bk. 11 , Letters to his Friends , ltr. 13 .――A town of Majorca. Pliny & Mela .――Of Picenum. Livy , bk. 39 , ch. 44 ; bk. 41 , ch. 27 .