AQUINUM, (anc. geog.) a large municipal town, and a Roman colony on the borders of the Samnites, washed by the river Melpha (Strabo). The birth-place of Juvenal, as he himself testifies. The inhabitants are called Aquinales; now Aquine, but almost in ruins, in the territory of Lavarro. E. Long. 17. 11. Lat. 41. 35.