The name of the comune was settled by a stone and a German. Until 1863 the village was called simply Pago; then the town council resolved to add Vetano or Veiano, and the royal decree of the twenty-second of January 1863 chose Veiano, following the opinion of Theodor Mommsen, who read the last word of the third line of the inscription differently from Raffaele Garrucci: scholars are divided to this day. The stone, found in 1845 in the district of Li Piani and dated 167, is walled into the façade of a house on the main street, and it records Caius Safronius Secundus, curator and patron of the pagus, who paid for the refectories out of his own pocket and gave a banquet to the villagers at the inauguration.
The other thing that made the village is the road. Along the left bank of the Tammaro ran one of the Samnite calles, widened and improved in Roman times and later a stretch of the via Herculia; in the Middle Ages it became the Regio Tratturo, fifty-five metres wide, the compulsory route of transhumance. The village grew slowly: in 1542 twenty-eight families lived here, thirty-three in 1561, and then came the plague of 1656.
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