Batulum
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
Batulum , ī, n.: a Samnite town in Campania, 7.739.
Bătŭlum, i, n.,
- a town in Campania, built by the Samnites, Verg. A. 7, 739 Serv.; Sil. 8, 566.
Batulum, ī, n., Stadt in Kampanien, nach Reichardt j. Baja, Verg. Aen. 7, 739. Sil. 8, 564.
Bătŭlum, (16) ī, n. , château fort de la Campanie [auj. Baja] : Virg. En. 7, 739.
BATULUM
BATULUM a town of Campania, mentioned by Virgil (Aen. 7.739) in conjunction with Rufrae and Celenna; and by Silius Italicus (Sil. Ital. 8.566), who associates it with Mucrae and Bovianum. The latter author clearly regards it as a Samnite city; but Virgil seems to be enumerating only places which adjoined the Campanian plain, and Servius in his note on the passage calls both Rufrae and Batulum castella Campaniae, a Samnitibus condita.T he name is not mentioned by any other author, and its site is wholly unknown.
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