Its prosperity, in the imperial period, is testified by the inscriptions found. One of particular importance relates to the fate of the nearby Fucino river which dried up following the building of the Tunnels of Claudius to drain the lake in the 1st century by the emperor Claudius.

The ancient city was gradually abandoned in late antiquity, especially after a serious earthquake in the first half of the sixth century. In 537 it was occupied by the Byzantines