COMPSA (mod. Conza)  , an ancient city of the Hirpini, near the sources of the Aufidus, on the boundary of Lucania and not far from that of Apulia, on a ridge 1998 ft. above sea-level . It was betrayed to Hannibal in 216 B.C. after the defeat of Cannae, but recaptured two years later . It was probably occupied by Sulla in 89 B.C., and was the scene of the death of T . Annius Milo in 48 B.C . Most authorities (cf . Hiilsen in, Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, Stuttgart, 1901, iv . 797) refer Caes . Bell.civ. iii . 22, and Plin . Hist . Nat. ii . 147, to this place, supposing the MSS. to be corrupt .

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identification of the site of Milo's death with Cassano on the Gulf of Taranto must therefore be rejected . In imperial times, as inscriptions show, it was a municipium, but it lay far from any of the main high-roads . There are no important ancient remains .