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Oaeneum

Oaeneum a town of the Penestae, situated on a road leading into the country of the Labeates, which overlooked a narrow pass, formed by a mountain and the river ARTATUS. It was taken by Perseus in the campaign of B.C. 169. (Liv. 43.19.)

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.