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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOVIANUM , the name of two See also:

ancient See also:Italian towns. (1) UNDECIMANORUM {Boianoj, the See also:chief See also:city of the Pentri See also:Samnites, 9 m. N.W. of See also:Saepinum and 18 m. S.E. of See also:Aesernia, on the important road from Beneventum to See also:Corfinium, which connected the Via See also:Appia and the Via See also:Valeria. The See also:original city occupied the height (Civita) above the See also:modern See also:town, where remains of Cyclopean walls still exist, while the See also:Roman town (probably founded after the Social See also:War, in which Bovianum was the seat of the Samnite See also:assembly) See also:lay in the See also:plain. It acquired the name Undecimanorum when See also:Vespasian settled the veterans of the Legio XI. Claudia there. Its remains have been covered by over 30 ft. of See also:earth washed down from the mountains. Comparatively few See also:inscriptions have been discovered. (2) VETUS (near Pietrabbondante, 5 M. S. of Agnone and 19 M. N.W. of See also:Campobasso), according to Th.

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Mommsen (Corpus Inscrip. See also:Lat. ix. See also:Berlin, 1883, p. 257) the chief town of the Caraceni. It lay in a remote situation among the mountains, and where Bovianum is mentioned the reference is generally to Bovianum Undecimanorum. Remains of fortifications and See also:lower down of a See also:temple and a See also:theatre (cf. Romische Mitteilungen, 1903, 154)—the latter remarkable for the See also:fine preservation of the See also:stone seats of the three lowest rows of the auditorium—are to be seen. No less than eight Oscan inscriptions have been found. (T.

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