: Eth. Fidentinus : Borgo S. Donnino ), a town of Gallia
Cispadana, situated on the Via Aemilia, between Parma and
Placentia, and distant 15 miles from the former city. (Plin.
Nat. 3.15. s. 20 ; Ptol. 3.1.46 ; Itin. Ant. p. 288.) Its name
is only mentioned in history during the civil wars between
Marius and Sulla, when M. Lucullus, one of the generals of
Sulla, was besieged within its walls by the lieutenants of
Carbo, but by a sudden sally defeated them with great loss.
(Plut. Sull. 27 ; Veil. Pat. 2.28; Liv. Epit. It seems to have
been at this time a place of consideration: but though noticed
by Pliny and Ptolemy as a municipal town, it appears to have
subsequently declined, and is called in the Itineraries in more
than one passage “Fidentiola vicus,” while still later the
Jerusalem Itinerary terms it merely a “mansio.” (Itin. Ant. pp.
99, 127; Itin. Hier. The modern Borgo S. Donnino derives its
name from St. Domninus, who, according to ecclesiastical
traditions, suffered martyrdom at a place called Julia,