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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Ciuna (Second Samnite War).

Fought B.C. 315, between the Romans under Caius Mænius and the Samnites under Pontius. The Romans gained a signal victory.

Civitella (Norman Invasion of Italy).[Italy).]

Fought 1033, when 3,000 Normans under Robert Guiscard assailed and totally routed a miscellaneous force of Germans and Italians under Pope Leo IX. Only the Germans offered any serious resistance, but they were cut down to a man, and the Pope was overtaken in his flight and captured.