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VIBINUM (Bovino) Foggia, Apulia, Italy.

An inland city 8 km from Aecae (Troia) and 24 km from Luceria. Its name is found in Pliny (3.105) and in inscriptions (CIL IX, 966). Hannibal encamped there in 217 B.C. (Polyb. 3.88). The ager Vibinas is mentioned in the Liber Coloniarum (p. 210). There are remains of walls and towers, as well as numerous inscriptions, an aqueduct, and some cisterns.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, II (1857) 1307 (E. H. Bunbury); RE 8.2 (1958) 1947-48.

F. G. LO PORTO

The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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