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Trica\ whose names haye passed into a "by-word and a 
proverb. 
Besides the above, there is in the interior of the second 
region one colony of the Hirpini, Eeneventum^, so called by 
an exchange of a more auspicious name for its old one of 
Maleventimi ; also the ^culani^, the Aquilonii^, the Abelli- 
nates surnamed Protropi, the Compsani, the Caudini, the 
Ligures, both those called the Corneliani and Bebiani, the 
Yescellani, the JEclani, the Aletrini, the Abellinates^ sur- 
named Marsi, the Atrani, the JEcani^, the Alfellani^, the 
1 The names of these two defunct cities were used by the Romans to 
signify anything frivolous and unsubstantial ; just as we speak of " cas- 
tles in the air," which the French call " chateaux en Espagne." 
2 Livy and Ptolemy assign this place to Samnium Proper, as distin- 
guished from the Hirpini. It was a very ancient city of the Samnites, 
but in the year B.C. 268, a Roman colony was settled there, on which 
occasion, prompted by superstitious feelings, the Romans changed its 
name Maleventum, which in their language would mean " badly come," 
to Beneventum or " well come." The modern city of Benevento stiU. 
retains numerous traces of its ancient grandeur, among others a tri- 
umphal arch, erected a.d. 114 in honour of the emperor Trajan. 
2 The remaius of ^culanum are to be seen at Le Grrotte, one mile 
from Mirabella. The ruins are very extensive. 
^ There were probably two places called Aquilonia in Italy ; the remains 
of the present one are those probably to be seen at La Cedogna. That 
mentioned by Livy, B. x. c. 38-43, was probably a different place. 
^ These are supposed by some to be the people of Abelhnum mentioned 
in the first region of Italy. Nothing however is known of these or of 
the Abellinates Marsi, mentioned below. 
^ Mcsd is supposed to have been situate about nmeteen miles from 
Herdonia, and to have been on the site of the modern city of Troja, an 
episcopal see. The Compsani were the people of Gompsa, the modern 
Conza ; and the Caiidioi were the inhabitants of Caudium, near which 
were thePauces Caudinse or " Caudine Porks," where the Roman army was 
captured by the Samnites. The site of this city was probably between 
the modern Arpaja and Monte Sarchio ; and the defeat is thought to 
have taken place in the narrow valley between Santa Agata and Moirano, 
on the road from the former place to Benevento, and traversed by the 
little river Iselero. The enumeration here beginning with the ^Eclani is 
thought by Hardouin to be of nations belongrug to Apuha, and not to 
the Hirpuii. The ^clani, here mentioned, were probably the people 
of the place now called AscoH di Satriano, not far from the river Cara- 
peUa. Of the Aletriui and Atrani nothing appears to be known. 
7 Probably the people of AfElse, still called Affile, and seven miles 
from Subiaco. Inscriptions and fragments of columns are stiU found 
there. 
