[2033] Such was Nola, which our author in his sixth book evidently places in the territory of the Samnites.
[2034] Bojano.
[2035] Isernia.
[2036] The ruins of Telesia are to be seen about a mile from the modern Telese. Allifæ was between Telesia and Venafrum.
[2037] Benevento.
[2038] Venosa. The coins of Venusia have on the reverse the inscription VE., and an eagle resting on a thunderbolt. On the obverse, a head of Jupiter, and sometimes of Bacchus. Sestini, Monet. Vet. p. 15. The Antiquitates Venusinæ and the Iter Venusinum were published at Naples in the last century.
[2039] Casaubon conjectures that in place of the τῷ ἔτει τούτῳ, we should read τῷ ἔαρι τούτῳ, or, the productions of the spring: and it certainly would seem that Strabo is here describing what the Latins called a ver sacrum. An ancient historian, speaking of the occurrence mentioned by Strabo, says, “Quondam Sabini feruntur vovisse, si res communis melioribus locis constitisset, se ver sacrum facturos.” Sisenn. Hist. lib. iv. ap. Non. Marcell. De doctor. indag. ed. 1683, fol. 2531. Festus, Sext. P. Fest. De verb. sign. F. ed. 1699, p. 478, seems to have mentioned the same thing.
[2040] The animals and fruits are intended.
[2041] Devoted to Mars.
[2042] Or little Sabines.