Casinum was an ancient town of
Italy, probably of
Volscian origin.
Varro states that the name was
Sabine, and meant
forum vetus, and also that the town itself was
Samnite, but he is probably wrong. When it came under
Roman supremacy is not known, but it probably received the citizenship in 188 BC. It was the most southeasterly town in
Latium adiectum, situated on the
Via Latina about 40 miles north-west of
Capua. It appears occasionally in the history of the
Hannibalic War. Varro possessed a villa near it, in which later on
Mark Antony held his
orgies.