ALLIFAE (mod. Alife), a town of the Samnites, 15m. N.W. of Telesia, and i7m. E.N.E. of Teanum. The site of the Samnite city, which in the 4th century B.C. had a coinage of its own, is not known; the Roman town lay in the valley of the Vulturnus, and its walls (4th century A.D.) enclose a circuit of 11m.; they have four gates at the ends of the cardo and decumanus (the main streets) by which it is still divided. Outside are preserved remains of large baths (Thermae Herculis) and a theatre.