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Clampetia formerly stood, the town of Temsa\ called Temese 

 by the Greeks, aud Terina founded by the people of Crotona^, 

 with tlie extensive Gulf of Terina ; jnore inland, the town of 

 Consentia^. Situate upon a peninsula'* is the river Ache- 

 ron', from which the people of Acherontia derive the name 

 of theii' town ; then Hippo, now called Vibo A'^alentia, 

 the Port of Hercules ''j the river Metaurus'^, the town of 

 Tauroentum^, the Port of Orestes, and Medma^. Next, the 

 town of Scyllseum^", the river Crataeis^^ the mother of Scylla 

 it is said ; then the Pillar of Ehegium, the Straits of Sicily, 

 and the two promontories wliich face each other, Csenys^^ on 

 the Italian, and Pelorus^^ on the Sicilian side, the distance be- 

 tween them being twelve stadia. At a distance thence of 

 twelve miles and a half, we come to Ehegium^'*, after which 

 begins Sila^*, a forest of the Apennines, and then the pro- 

 of the modem Amantia. From other authors we find that it was still 

 existing at this time. If such is the f^ict, the meaning will be " the place 

 where the former municipal town of Clampetia stood," it being supposed 

 to have lost in its latter years its mmiicipal privileges. 



^ One of the ancient Ausonian towns, and afterwards colonized by the 

 -^toHans. Like its namesake in Cyi^rus it was famous for its copper. 

 Its site is now occupied by Torre di Lupi. 



2 A Greek city, almost totally destroyed by Hannibal ; Santa Eufemia 

 occupies its site. 



3 One of the cities of the Bruttii ; now Cosenza. 



* The part which now constitutes the Farther Calabria. 



^ Supposed to be the same as the Aix-onte, wliich falls into the 

 Crathis near Consentia. Notliing is known of the town here alluded to, 

 but it must not be confounded with Acherontia, the modem Acerenza, in 

 Apuha, which was a ditierent place. 



^ Supposed to have been the same as the modern port of Tropca. 



7 The modern Marro. 



^ Its ruins are supposed to be those seen near Palmi. 



^ Probably the modem Meha stands on its site. 



'" A town on the promontory of the same name, now called Scilla or 

 Sciglio, where the monster Scylla was fabled to have dwelt. 



^^ Homer says (Odyssey, lii. 124), that it had its name from the nymph 

 Cratseis, the mother of Scylla. It is probably the small stream now called 

 Fiume (U Solano or dei Pesci. 



'- The modern Capo di Cavallo, according to the older commentators ; 

 but more recent geographers think that the Punta del Pezzo was the point 

 so called. '^ Now called Capo di Faro, from the lighthouse tliere erected. 



'"* Originally a Greek colony ; a Roman colony was settleil there by 

 Augustus. The modem city of Reggio occupies its site. 



^* It extended south of Consentia to the Sicilian Straits, a distance of 

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