Caudium
Caudium (modern
History
In early times it was an important site, either the capital or chief city of the Caudini. Grave goods, found in the necropolis nearby, show that the site was inhabited from the 8th to the 3rd centuries.
Caudium is first mentioned during the
Caudium is not mentioned during the Second Punic War, but the Caudini are repeatedly mentioned. Niebuhr supposed that the city was destroyed by the Romans in revenge for their great defeat at the Caudine Forks, but there is no evidence for this, and in a later period it was known as a stopping place along the Appian Way, both in the time of Augustus (Hor. Sat. 1.5.51; Strabo 5. p. 249) and in the late empire.[2]
In the triumviral period Caudium received a colony of veterans; and it appears from Pliny, as well as from inscriptions, that it retained its municipal character, though deprived of a large portion of its territory in favor of the neighboring city of Beneventum. (Plin. iii. 11. s. 16; Lib. Colon. p. 232; Orelli, Inscr. 128, 131.)
The period of its destruction is unknown: the name is still found in the 9th century, but it is uncertain whether the town still existed at that time.
Ecclesiastical history
The ancient
Felicissimus, in 496, is the only ancient bishop of the see whose name is known. In the 10th century its territory became part of the diocese of
The diocese of Caudium was nominally restored in 1970 by the
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-52106185-8), pp. 225–226
- ^ Ptol. iii. 1. § 67; Itin. Ant. p. 111; Itin. Hier. p. 610; Tab. Peut.
- ^ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, vol. 10, p. 283
- ^ Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, p. 186
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 839
Bibliography
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Caudium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- E.T. Salmon (1967), Samnium and the Samnites, Cambridge U.P.
- G. D'Henry (1967), Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale, Suppl. (1967), pp. 193–195
- Ecclesiastical history
- Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, vol. 10, p. 283
- Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, p. 186