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