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See also:COMPSA (mod. Conza) , an See also:ancient See also:city of the See also:Hirpini, near the See also:sources of the Aufidus, on the boundary of Lucania and not far from that of See also:Apulia, on a See also:ridge 1998 ft. above See also:sea-level . It was betrayed to See also:Hannibal in 216 B.C. after the defeat of See also:Cannae, but recaptured two years later . It was probably occupied by See also:Sulla in 89 B.C., and was the See also:scene of the See also:death of T . Annius See also:Milo in 48 B.C . Most authorities (cf . Hiilsen in, Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, See also:Stuttgart, 1901, iv . 797) refer Caes . See also:Bell.civ. iii . 22, and Plin . Hist . Nat. ii . 147, to this See also:place, supposing the See also:MSS. to be corrupt . The usual See also:identification of the site of Milo's death with See also:Cassano on the Gulf of See also:Taranto must therefore be rejected . In imperial times, as See also:inscriptions show, it was a See also:municipium, but it See also:lay far from any of the See also:main high-roads . There are no important ancient remains . |
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