Accua was a small town of ancient Apulia, mentioned only by Livy[1] as one of the places recovered by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus from the Carthaginians in the fifth year of the Second Punic War, 214 BCE. It appears from this passage to have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Luceria, but its exact site is unknown. Vibius Accuaeus, was a native of Accua; he led a cohort of Paelignian soldiers in the Roman army in 212 BCE, during the Second Punic War, and fought with conspicuous bravery. It is not certain whether Vibius was his praenomen or his nomen.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 24.
  2. ↑ Livy, xxv. 14.
  3. ↑ Valerius Maximus, iii. 2. § 20.
  4. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, vol. I, p. 11 ("Accua").
  5. ↑ I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Accua: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/446208> [accessed: 05 January 2021]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "A'ccua". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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