SAEPINUM (mod. Altilia, near Sepino)  , a Samnite town 9 m . S. of the modern Campobasso, on the ancient road from Beneventum to Corfinium . It was captured by the Romans in 293 B.C . The position of the original town is on the mountain far above the Roman town, and remains of its walls in Cyclopean masonry still exist . The city walls (in opus reticulatum) of the Roman town were erected by Tiberius before he became emperor, the date (between 2 B.C. and A.D . 4) being given by an inscription . Within them are remains of a theatre and other buildings, including temples of Jupiter and Apollo, and there still exists, by the gate leading to Bovianum, an important inscription of about A.D . 168, relating to the tratture (see Mum) in Roman days, forbidding the natives to harm the shepherds who passed along them (Corp. inscr . Lat. ix . 2438) . See L . Fulvio in Not. degli scay .

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