"... Null in Italy it is older than Benevento, occording
to the local legends it was founded dy Diomede or Ausone,
a son of Ulisse and Circe. It was without doubt an ancient
ausonica city, founded along time before the sannita conquest
of this part of Italy. Also however it is like of a sannitica
city that for first we feel to speak about it, and then was
a poderosa fortress in the second Sannita war, Rome ardisce
not to attack it. In the third sannitica war it fell in its
hands.."
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