City
Venusiae
Venosa
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Venusiae marks Venosa in southern Italy, the town where the Roman poet Horace was born. Legend credited its founding to the Greek hero Diomedes, but it was Rome that settled a Latin colony here in 291 BC, after the Third Samnite War, and the Via Appia ran straight through it. In the war against Hannibal the town was of real strategic importance. The map gives it the usual pair of towers. The figure for the stretch to the bridge over the Aufidus can be read as either eighteen or twenty-three Roman miles. Remains of baths and an amphitheatre still survive.