 In the valley of the River Tamarus, which was mentioned as being 5 miles above Beneventum in the Itinerary of Antoninus, there was Ligures Baebiani et Corneliani, a colony of Ligurians relocated in the heart of this mountain region by the Romans in 180 BC.It continued to exist as a separate community in the days of Pliny.Three of the minor towns of the Hirpini were mentioned by Livy as having being retaken by the praetor M. Valerius in 215 BC; but the names given in the manuscripts, Vescellium, Vercellium, and Sicilinum, are probably corrupted.