Salapia

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §20 When he came to Salapia

  Town in Apulia where Hannibal took winter quarters after leaving Tarentum, drawing grain from Metapontum and Heraclea.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §58 Salapia

  An Apulian town betrayed to Marcellus, with its prized Numidian cavalry garrison, by the pro-Roman Blattius.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §1 Salapia

  A town in Apulia recovered by Marcellus by betrayal; later the scene of Hannibal's failed ring-stratagem (ch. 27).