Teanum Apulum
On the hill of Civitate, near San Paolo, a prior Apulian settlement named Teate was conquered by the Romans in 318 B.C., together with Canusium. It was subjugated by the Roman consuls M. Foslius Flaccinator and L. Plautius Venno (Livy 9.20). During the second Punic war, M. Junius Pera (Livy 23.24) selected it as his winter quarters. It is mentioned in passing by Cicero (Clu. 9) as a municipium, 18 Roman miles from Larinum. The name of the city also appears in the lists of the cities of Apulia (Strab. 6.285; Mel. 2.4.6; Plin. 3.103; Ptol. 3.1.72). Its role as a municipium is confirmed by the discovery of inscriptions (CIL IX, 705), in addition to its citation in the Liber Coloniarum (p. 210). The city seems to have been enrolled in the tribus Cornelia (CIL IX, p. 67). Remains of walls, as well as of the Roman aqueduct, are left in the zone; recently a temple has been discovered. The local Museo Civico preserves numerous pieces of archaeological evidence.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, II (1857) 1115 (E. H. Bunbury); K. Miller, Itineraria Romana (1916) 219; RE 5.1 (1934) 96-97.
F. G. LO PORTO