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tre leiirn from Antias that king L. Tarquiniiis took Apiola)\ 

 a town of the Latins, and witli its spoils laid the first foun- 

 dations of the Capitol. From Siirrentum'^ to the river 

 Silarus^, the former territory of Pieentia^ extends for a 

 distance of thirty miles. This belonged to the Etruscans, 

 and was remarkable for the temple of the Argive Juno, 

 founded by Jason^ In it was Picentia, a town^ of the ter- 

 ritory of ^alernum^. 



CHAP. 10. THE THIRD REGION OF ITALY. 



At the Silarus begins the third region of Italy, consisting 

 of the territory of Lucania and Bruttium ; here too there 

 have been no few changes of the population. These districts 



^ This city took the lead in the war of the Latin cities against Tar- 

 qiunius Priscus. Gell and Nibby think that it was situate about eleven 

 miles from Rome, a mile to the south of the Appian way, where there 

 are some remains that indicate the site of an ancient city, near the stream 

 called the Fosso delle Fratocche. Livy tells us that with the spoils 

 thence derived, Tarquinius celebrated the Ludi Magni for the fu*st time. 



- Opposite Caprese, and situate on the Promontory of Minerva. Sor- 

 rento now stands on its site. 



^ The modem Silaro ; it was the boundary between Lucania and 

 Campania, and rises in the Apennines. 



■* A to^\ni in the south of Campania, at the head of the Gulf of 

 Pcestum. In consequence of the aid wliich they gave to Hannibal, the 

 inhabitants were foi'ced to abandon their to\\"n and hve in the adjoining 

 vdlages. The name of Piccntmi was given, as here stated, to the inha- 

 bitants of all the territory between the Promontory of Minerva and the 

 river Silarus. They were a portion of the Sabine Picentes, who were 

 h'ansplanted thither after the conquest of Piccnum, B.C. 268. The mo- 

 dem Vicenza stands on its site. 



^ The Argonaut. Probably this was only a vague tradition. 



^ By using the genitive ' Salemi,' he would seem to imply that the 

 Eoman colony of Salemum then gave name to the district of wliich Pi- 

 centia was the cliief town. Ajasson however has translated it merely 

 " Salemum and Picentia." ' Intus ' can hardly mean " inland," as 

 Picentia was near the coast, and so was Salemum. 



7 This was an ancient towm of Campania, at the innermost comer of 

 the Gulf of Pirstuni, situate near the coast, on a heiglit at tlie foot of 

 whicli lay its harbour. It attained great pros])erity, as Salerno, in the 

 middle ages, and was noted for its School of Healtli estabhshed there; 

 which issued periodically rules for the preservation of health in Latin 

 Leonine verse. 



