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