Batulum
Batulum a town of Campania, mentioned by Virgil (Aen. 7.739) in conjunction with Rufrae and Celenna; and by Silius Italicus (8.566), who associates it with Mucrae and Bovianum. The latter author clearly regards it as a Samnite city; but Virgil seems to be enumerating only places which adjoined the Campanian plain, and Servius in his note on the passage calls both Rufrae and Batulum castella Campaniae, a Samnitibus condita.
The name is not mentioned by any other author, and its site is wholly unknown.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.