Road station
Casilino
Nova Capua
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Casilino is Casilinum, where the Via Appia crossed the Volturno by a bridge, and where in 856 a bishop refounded Capua, so that today's Capua stands on its site. In 216 BC a small garrison of five hundred and seventy men from Praeneste and Perusia held the town against Hannibal until famine forced them to give up, a siege the Roman writer Pliny remembers for the fortune paid for a single mouse. By his time Casilinum was dying.