PICENTIA, (Strabo, Pliny), the capital of the Picentini, whose territory, called Ager Picentinus, a small district, lay on the Tuscan Sea, from the Promontorium Mincere, the south boundary of Campania on the coast, to the river Silarus, the north boundary of Lucania, extending within-land as far as the Samnites and Hirpini, though the exact termination cannot be assigned. The Greeks commonly confound the Picentini and Picentes, but the Romans carefully distinguish them. The former, with no more than two towns that can be named, Silernum and Picentia; the situation of both doubtful: only Pliny says the latter stood within-land, at some distance from the sea. Now thought to be Bicenza, (Holstenius), in the Principato Citra of Naples.