The Romans knew the mountain with the name "Taburnus". It lay in the Caudine part of the Samnium, near the location of the famous Battle of the Caudine Forks. The name seems to come from the Oscan language. The mountain was mentioned by Virgil in the "Aeneid" and in the "Georgics", where he described it as "mighty". In his "Cynegeticon", Gratius Faliscus described the mountain as "craggy".