Beneventum

The customary form "Beneventum" shews less clearly the derivation from "ventus" which Procopius favours.

Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

His purpose was to accompany Tiberius, who was being dispatched to Illyricum on official imperial business, as far as the town of Beneventum, south of Rome.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Italys most famous road, the Appian Way, went north from Capua to Rome and south from Capua into the Apennine Mountains at Beneventum (modern Benevento) and, two hundred miles beyond, the Adriatic Sea at Brundisium (Brindisi).

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Italys most famous road, the Appian Way, went north from Capua to Rome and south from Capua into the Apennine Mountains at Beneventum (modern Benevento) and, two hundred miles beyond, the Adriatic Sea at Brundisium (Brindisi).

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Italys most famous road, the Appian Way, went north from Capua to Rome and south from Capua into the Apennine Mountains at Beneventum (modern Benevento) and, two hundred miles beyond, the Adriatic Sea at Brundisium (Brindisi).

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Italys most famous road, the Appian Way, went north from Capua to Rome and south from Capua into the Apennine Mountains at Beneventum (modern Benevento) and, two hundred miles beyond, the Adriatic Sea at Brundisium (Brindisi).

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

At this same time, as no one can mention or hear without great sadness, the mother of all churches, the basilica of the apostle Peter in Rome, was taken and plundered by the Moors, or Saracens, who had already occupied the region of Beneventum.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Disorder and Warfare according to the Annals of Xanten (844 -861) 2009

Fulvia snared that famous fence-sitter and side-switcher Lucius Munatius Plancus and bewitched him into donating the veteran soldiers he was settling around Beneventum—two full legions—for her army; after which she persuaded that aristocratic dolt Tiberius Claudius Nero, whom Caesar had so detested, to raise a slave revolt in Campania—not an appropriate task for one who had never in his life conversed with a slave.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Like Octavia, the exalted wife of Marcus Antonius, whose statues stood in the marketplaces of Beneventum, Capua, Teanum Sidicinum.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Fulvia snared that famous fence-sitter and side-switcher Lucius Munatius Plancus and bewitched him into donating the veteran soldiers he was settling around Beneventum—two full legions—for her army; after which she persuaded that aristocratic dolt Tiberius Claudius Nero, whom Caesar had so detested, to raise a slave revolt in Campania—not an appropriate task for one who had never in his life conversed with a slave.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007