Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Asculum (Social War).

Fought B.C. 89, between 75,000 Romans under Strabo, who was besieging the town, and 60,000 Italians under Judacilius, who had marched to its relief. The Romans were victorious, but Judacilius succeeded in throwing a considerable portion of his army into the beleaguered[beleaguered] city.