Road station
Arpos
(near Arpinova) (Barrington) · (Arpe bei Foggia) (Miller)
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Arpos is Arpi, near Foggia in the wide grain plain of Apulia. Legend said the Greek hero Diomedes founded it and named it Argos Hippium, horse-rich Argos, after his home, a name that wore down to Argyrippa and finally Arpi. It was a large and wealthy trading town that struck its own coins, but after Cannae it went over to Hannibal, was retaken by Fabius Maximus in 213 BC, and never recovered.