HAMAE
HAMAE a place in Campania, between Capua and Cumae, where the Capuans were in the habit of assembling annually for a solemn religious festival; an occasion of which they endeavoured to make use during the Second Punic War (B.C. 215) to reduce
[p. 1.1030]the Cumaeans under their subjection, but their plans were frustrated and they themselves put to the sword by the Roman consul Sempronius Gracchus. (
Liv. 23.35.) Livy, who is the only author that mentions Hamae, tells us that it was 3 miles from Cumae; but the exact site cannot be determined.
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