Compsa (modern Conza della Campania) was an ancient city of the Hirpini, near the sources of the Aufidus, on the boundary of Lucania and not far from that of Apulia, on a ridge 609 m above sea level.

22) and Pliny's Naturalis Historiæ[4] to this place, supposing the ancient manuscripts to be corrupt.

Thus the usual identification of the site of Milo's death with Cassano allo Ionio on the Gulf of Taranto must be incorrect.

[2] In imperial times, as inscriptions show, it was a municipium, but it lay far from any of the main highways.

[2] The ruins of the ancient city were studied again, when they reappeared after the destruction of the modern town in the 1980 Irpinia earthquake.