. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ajan, and Septimius Severus. A triumphal arch inhonour of Trajan still remains. Caudium, tlie capital of the Caudini,stood on the Via Appia between Beneventum and Capua. It is noticedin the history of the Samnite Wars, and is particTilarly memorable forthe disastrous defeat of the Romans in o21, which took place at apass called FurcrJa? Caudinfe, the Caudiiie Forks, the position ofwhich is near Arpaja, between Sta. Agata and Moirano. Of the less important towns we may notice—Aufidena, Alfi
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ajan, and Septimius Severus. A triumphal arch inhonour of Trajan still remains. Caudium, tlie capital of the Caudini,stood on the Via Appia between Beneventum and Capua. It is noticedin the history of the Samnite Wars, and is particTilarly memorable forthe disastrous defeat of the Romans in o21, which took place at apass called FurcrJa? Caudinfe, the Caudiiie Forks, the position ofwhich is near Arpaja, between Sta. Agata and Moirano. Of the less important towns we may notice—Aufidena, Alfidena, thecapital of the Caraceni, in the uppf^r valley of the Sagrns, a fortress ofgreat streno^th ; Allifae, Alife, in the valley of the Yulturnus,• on theborders of Campania, the scene of several military events, and a placeof importance under the empire ; Calatia, ,Co/azzo, about a mile N. ofthe Yulturnus, and ten miles of Capua, the town at which theRomans were encamped before their disaster at the Caudine Forks ;Saticula,^ S. of the Yulturnus, and probably in the valley at the back. Coin of Beneventum. Hence the well-known notice in Horace in his journey to Brundnsium :-Tendimns hinc recta Beneventum, &c. Sat. i. 5, 71. Virgil adopts the ethnic form SatlcuJus for Saticulanus :— Accola Yolturni, pariterque Saticulus asper. ^En. vii. 729. Chap. XXV. SAMXIUM — FEEXTAXI. 527 of Mount Tifata, besieged and taken by the Romans in 315; EquusTuticus, S. Eleuterio, in the district of the Hirpini, on the Via Trajana;Trivicum, Trerico, on the Via Appia/ but not on the line of road fol-lowed in later times; Eomulea,^ on the same road at Blsaccia, noticed asa large town at the time of its capture by the Romans in 297, butnot mentioned subsequently; Compsa, Conza, on the borders of Lucania,the place where Hannibal deposited his baggage in 216, and subse-quently taken by the Romans in 214; and, lastly, Abellimini, AvelUno,near the Campanian frontier, a place of
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