TERRACI'NA, a town in the States of the Church, near the Neapolitan frontier, about 56 miles S.E. from Rome, has about 4000 inhabitants. The old town, which is built on the site of the ancient Anxur, rises in the form of an amphitheatre on the slope of a calca reous rock, which is a projection of the ridge called Monti Lepini, leaving but a narrow strip of land between it and the sea, along which runs the high road to Naples in the track of the ancient Via Apple. Along the road are the modern buildings of Terraciun, consistiug of the post-house and inns, customhouse, granaries, and other structures for public use. The old harbour, which was restored by the emperor Antoninus, has been long since filled up, but remains of the mole are still seen. The old town is an assemblage of poor-looking houses, perched one above another, surrounded and overtopped by white cliffs, which are seen from afar. (Horace, ' Sat.,' i. 5.) Above all rises the
cathedral with its lofty steeple ; an elegant palace built by Pius VI.; the remains of the palace called that of Theodoric, which is a structure of the 5th century of our era, and is situated on the summit of the hill, and about 600 feet above the sea; and an old castle raised in the middle ages. Remains of an ancient theatre are, also seen. The climate of Terracing is very mild and genial in winter, but uuwhole some in summer.
was a thriving town of the Volsci; was taken by the Romans in the year as 403; was retaken by surprise in ac. 399 ; and taken again by the Romans throe years after. It afterwards became n Roman colony by the name of Tarracina. The Temple of Jupiter nt Tarracina is mentioned by Livy. (Liry, iv. 59 ; v. 10.13 ; xxviii. 11.)