ÆCULANUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Hirpini in Italy, at the foot of the Apennines, to the east of Abellinum, contracted Æclanum, situated between Beneventum and Tarentum. The inhabitants are called Æculani by Pliny; and Æclanenses, in an ancient inscription (Gruter). The town is now called Fricento, (Cluverius), 43 miles east of Naples. E. Long. 15. 38. N. Lat. 41. 15.