Arpinum was the name of a fern Reemish town in southern Latium, now Arpino. It is well known as the birthstead of both Gaius Marius (157 BC) and Cicero (106 BC). Its stear goes back to at least the 7th yearhundred BC. Tied to the Pelasgi, the Volsci and the Samnitish folk, it was taken over by the Roomers in 305 BC.
Beside old Arpinum there is the umbtrimmed lave from a much earlier Samnitish town.
