Beneventum: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>Bĕnĕventum</b>: i, n., = Βενεούεντον and Βενούεντον, Strab. [[bene]]-[[ventus]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[very]] [[ancient]] [[city]] of the [[Hirpini]], in [[Samnium]], [[now]] Benevento, Liv. Epit. 15; Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105; acc. to [[fable]] (Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 9; Sol. c. 11), founded by [[Diomedes]]; it became a [[flourishing]] Roman [[colony]] 485 A.U.C., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 38; Hor. S. 1, 5, 71; Vell. 1, 14, 7; Plin. 32, 2, 9, § 59; called [[Maleventum]] on [[account]] of its [[unwholesome]] [[air]], Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105; cf. Fest. p. 340, 8 Müll.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 34, 14 ib.; Liv. 9,27, 14; 10, 15, 1; [[situated]] on the [[high]]-[[road]] [[towards]] the [[south]] of [[Italy]]; [[hence]], [[much]] resorted to in [[warlike]] expeditions, as in the [[two]] Punic wars; [[after]] it [[was]] colonized by [[Augustus]], it [[was]] called Julia [[Concordia]], Front. Colon. p. 103 (abounding in the ruins of a [[former]] [[age]]).—Hence, Bĕnĕventā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to [[Beneventum]]: [[ager]], Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 38: [[sutor]], Juv. 5, 46.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: Bĕnĕventāni, ōrum, m., the Beneventines, Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15.