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one of the most famous ports of Italy, and, althougli more 

 distant, affords by far the safest passage across to Greece, 

 the place of disembarkation being Dyrrachium, a city of 

 Ill}Tia ; the distance across is 225 miles. 



^ Adjoining Brundusium is the territory of the Pediculi^ ; 

 nine youths and as many maidens, natives of Illyria, became 

 the parents of sixteen nations. The towns of the Pediculi 

 are Kudiae-', Egnatia^ and Barium'' ; their riyers are the lapyx 

 (so called from the son of Dfedalus, who was king there, and 

 who gave it the name of lapygia), the Pactius^ and the 

 Aufidus, which rises in the Hirpinian mountains and flows 

 past Canusium^. 



At this point begins Apulia, surnamed the Daimian, from the 

 Daunii, who take their name from a former chief, the father-in- 

 law of Diomedes. In this territory are the towns of Salapia", 

 famous for Hannibal's amour with a courtezan, Sipontum^, 



1 They occupied probably a portion of the modern Terra di Bari. 



2 Said by Hardouin to be the modern Carouigna or Carovigni ; but 

 Mannert asserts it to be the same as the modem Euvo. 



^ Or Gnatia, called by Strabo and Ptolemy a city of Apulia. It was 

 probably the last to^n of the Peucetians towards the frontiers of Calabria. 

 Horace, in the account of his journey to Brundusunn (I. Sat. i. 97-100), 

 makes it his last halting-place, and ridicules a pretended miracle shown 

 by the mhabitants, who asserted that incense placed on a certain altar 

 was consumed without fire being appUed. The same story is referred to 

 by Pliny, B. ii. c. Ill, where he incon-ectly makes Egnatia a to^vn of the 

 Salentini. Its ruins are visible on the sea-coast, about six miles S.E. of 

 Monopah, and an old town still bears the name of Torre d' Agnazzo. 



"^ Now Bari, a considerable city. In the tune of Horace it was only a 

 fishing town. It probably had a considerable intercoiu-se with Greece, 

 if we may judge from the remains of art found here. 



5 It is difficult to identify these rivers, from the number of smaU tor- 

 rents between Brindisi and the Ofanto or Aufidus. Accordmg to 

 Mannert, the Pactius is the present Canale di Terzo. 



^ An important city of Apuha, said to have been founded by Diomedes. 

 Horace alludes to its deficiency of water. The modem Canosa is built 

 on probably the site of the citadel of tlie ancient city, the ruins of which 

 are very extensive. 



7 The ruins of this place are still to be seen at some little distance 

 fro7n the coast, near the village of Salpi. The ston- about Hannibal was 

 very probably of Roman invention, for Justin .and Front iniis speak in 

 praise of his continence and temperance. Appian however gives some 

 farther particulars of this alleged amour. 



»* The present Manfredonia has arisen from the decay of this ton-n, in 

 consequence of the unhealthiness of the locality. Ancient Uria is sup- 



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