TEANUM APULUM
(San Paolo di Civitate) Apulia,
Italy.
On the hill of Civitate, near San Paolo,
a prior Apulian settlement named Teate was conquered
by the Romans in 318 B.C., together with Canusium. It
was subjugated by the Roman consuls M. Foslius Flaccinator and L. Plautius Venno (
Livy 9.20). During the
second Punic war, M. Junius Pera (
Livy 23.24) selected
it as his winter quarters. It is mentioned in passing by
Cicero (
Clu. 9) as a municipium, 18 Roman miles
from Larinum. The name of the city also appears in the
lists of the cities of Apulia (
Strab. 6.285; Mel. 2.4.6;
Plin. 3.103; Ptol. 3.1.72). Its role as a municipium is
confirmed by the discovery of inscriptions (
CIL IX, 705),
in addition to its citation in the
Liber Coloniarum (p.
210). The city seems to have been enrolled in the tribus
Cornelia (
CIL IX, p. 67). Remains of walls, as well as
of the Roman aqueduct, are left in the zone; recently
a temple has been discovered. The local Museo Civico
preserves numerous pieces of archaeological evidence.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
W. Smith,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, II (1857) 1115 (E. H. Bunbury); K. Miller,
Itineraria Romana (1916) 219;
RE 5.1 (1934) 96-97.
F. G. LO PORTO
