Picenum

Picenum was also the birthplace of such Roman notables as Pompey the Great and his father, Pompeius Strabo.

For coastal cities he includes from north to south Ancona, Auxumum, Septempeda (San Severino Marche), Pneuentia, Potentia, Firmum Picenum with port at Castellum (Porto di Fermo), Cupra Maritima (Cupra Marittima and Grottammare), Truentum on the Truentinus (Tronto) and finally Castrum Novum and Matrinum on the Matrinus (Piomba), south of Silvi in Abruzzo.

Strabo also mentions Adria (Atri, Italy) and Asculum Picenum (Ascoli Piceno) in the interior.

According to Polybius,[4] during the consulship of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (232 BC), "the Romans divided among their citizens the territory in Gaul known as Picenum, from which they had ejected the Senones when they conquered them".

[6] Vinum Hadrianum was produced in Picenum,[7] in the city of Hatria or Hadria, the old name of Atri.

Excavated tombs in Novilara of the Molaroni and Servici cemeteries show that the Piceni laid bodies in the ground wrapped in garments they had worn in life.

Every man’s grave contained more or less a complete outfit of a warrior, with the most frequent weapon being a spear.

[12] South Picene, written in an unusual version of the Italic alphabet, has been identified as a Sabellic language that is neither Oscan nor Umbrian.