place
Petelia
also: Petelia
Town in Bruttium, loyal to Rome, taken by Himilco only after a famine so extreme that the besieged ate hides, grass, roots, and bark.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 23 §30 Petelia in Bruttium
Town in Bruttium, loyal to Rome, taken by Himilco only after a famine so extreme that the besieged ate hides, grass, roots, and bark.
- The History of Rome, Book 27 §25 the hill of Petelia
Petelia in Bruttium, near which Hannibal ambushed a Roman convoy.