CERAUNI´LIA
CERAUNI´LIA (
Κεραυνιλία), a town of Samnium or Apulia, mentioned by Diodorus (
20.26) as taken by the Romans in the Second Samnite War, B.C. 311.
The name is otherwise wholly unknown, as well as that of Cataracta (
Καταράκτα) which accompanies it; Niebuhr suggests (
Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 245) that it may be the same with the Cesaunia which appears in the epitaph of Scipio Barbatus; but this is mere conjecture. Italian antiquaries identify it with the modern town of
Cerignola in Apulia. (Romanelli, vol. ii. p. 259.)
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