Venusia

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §54 Venusia

  A Latin colony in Apulia to which Cannae fugitives fled.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §5 at Venusia

  Latin colony in Apulia to which the consul Varro withdrew with a remnant after Cannae.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §2 Venusia

  A Latin colony in Apulia, a repeated Roman base in this book.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §36 Venusia

  Venusia, the Latin colony of Apulia thinned by the Hannibalic war, refilled with new colonists.