place
Maleventum (Beneventum)
Maleventum
Samnite-frontier town, later the Roman colony Beneventum, refuge of the routed Samnites.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §27 Maleventum
The town (later Beneventum) to which the beaten Samnites fled after the battle near Caudium.
- The History of Rome, Book 10 §15 at Maleventum
A town in Samnite territory, later the Roman colony of Beneventum.