Trivicum
Ancient town in southern Italy
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Trivicum is the ancient Hirpini and Samnium town nowadays called Trevico.
Horace's visit
The Roman poet Horace mentions Trivicum in his well-known account of a journey in 37 BC along the Appian Way from Rome to Brindisi:
- incipit ex illo montīs Apulia notos
- ostentare mihi, quos torret Atabulus et quos
- nunquam erepsemus, nisi nos vicina Trivici
- villa recepisset lacrimoso non sine fumo,
- udos cum foliis ramos urente camino.[1]
- 'From there (Beneventum) Apulia began to show her familiar mountains to me, which the Atabulus wind scorches and which we would never have crawled over, had not a neighbouring villa in Trivicum welcomed us, not without eye-watering smoke, as the fireplace was burning damp branches along with their leaves.'
References
- ^ Horace, Satires, 1.5.77–81.
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