Trivicum

Trivicum is the ancient Hirpini and Samnium town nowadays called Trevico.

Horace's visit
The Roman poet Horace mentions Trivicum in his well-known account of a journey in 37 BC along the Appian Way from Rome to Brindisi:


 * incipit ex illo montīs Apulia notos
 * ostentare mihi, quos torret Atabulus et quos
 * nunquam erepsemus, nisi nos vicina Trivici
 * villa recepisset lacrimoso non sine fumo,
 * udos cum foliis ramos urente camino.


 * 'From there (Beneventum) Apulia began to show her familiar mountains to me, which the Atabulus wind scorches and which we would never have crawled over, had not a neighbouring villa in Trivicum welcomed us, not without eye-watering smoke, as the fireplace was burning damp branches along with their leaves.'