Ascŭlum
1.
Picēnum, the chief town of Picenum, and
a Roman municipium, was destroyed by the Romans in the Social War (B.C. 89), but was
afterwards rebuilt.
2.
Apŭlum, a town of Apulia in Daunia, on the confines of
Samnium, near which Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in the year B.C. 279.