EBOLI (anc. Eburum)  , a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, from which it is 16 m . E. by rail, situated 470 ft. above sea-level, on the S. edge of the hills overlooking the valley of the Sele . Pop . (1901) 9642 (town), 12,423 (commune) . The sacristy of St Francesco contains two 14th-century pictures, one by Roberto da Oderisio of Naples . The ancient Eburum was a Lucanian city, mentioned only by Pliny and in inscriptions, not far distant from the Campanian border . It lay above the Via Popillia, which followed the line taken by the modern railway . Some scanty remains of its ancient polygonal walls may still be seen . (T .