place
Beneventi
also: Beneventum
Beneventum (modern Benevento), a Roman colony of 268 BC in Samnium at the meeting of the via Appia and via Latina; a major staging-post on the route south. Frequent in Cicero's correspondence (Ad Att. 5.3-4); a chronological reference point at Verr. 2.1.38.