In response to their appeal, Hanno the Elder and his army moved north from Bruttium and collected provisions for Capua, and encamped near Beneventum.
From the locations of their votive or funerary stones, it can be deduced that at least 4 were cantral/southern Italians: from Aquino, Beneventum, the city of Rome (c. 120), and Tusculum.
Towns assigned with certainty to the Hirpini include: Beneventum, Aeclanum, Abellinum, Compsa, Aquilonia, Romulea, Trivicum, Equus Tuticus, and Murgantia.
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Taurasia mentioned as a town only in the celebrated epitaph of Scipio Barbatus, left its name to the Taurasini Campi not far from Beneventum, and must therefore have been itself situated in that neighborhood.