a town of the Sabines, in Italy, (Livy, Pliny); now extinct: The ruins are to be seen on the level ridge of a mountain, near S. Vittorino, and the springs of the Aternus; not far from Aquila, which rose out of the ruins of Amiternum. The inhabitants are called Amiternini, (Livy, Pliny.) The epithet, Amiternus, (Virgil.)