228 plint's katueal history. [Book III. 



TJria, tlie river Cerbalns\ forming the boundary of the Daiinii, 

 the port of Agasus^, and the Promontory of Mount Gar- 

 ganus^, distant from the Promontory of Salentinum or lapygia 

 234 miles. Making the circuit of Grarganus, we come to the 

 port of Garna^, the Lake Pantanus*, the river Prento, the 

 mouth of which forms a harbour, Teanum of the Apuli^, and 

 Larinum, Cliternia'', and the river Tifernus, at which the 

 district of the Prentani^ begins. Thus there were three 

 different nations of the Apulians, [the Daunii,] the Teani, so 

 called from their leader, and who sprang from the Greeks, and 

 the Lucani, who were subdued by Calchas ^, and whose country 

 is now possessed by the Atinates. Besides those already men- 

 tioned, there are, of the Daunii, the colonies of Luceria^*' and 

 Yenusia^^ the towns of Canusium^^ and Arpi, formerly called 

 Argos Hippium^^ and founded by Diomedes, afterwards called 

 Argyrippa. Here too Diomedes destroyed the nations of the 

 Monadi and the Dardi, and the two cities of Apina and 



posed to have occupied the site of Manfredonia, and the village of Santa 

 Maria di Siponto stands where Siponti stood, 



^ Probably the Cervaro. Hardouin says the Candelaro. 



^ The present Porto Grreco occupies its site. 



3 Still known as G-argano. 



* Probably the present Varano. 



5 Now Lago di Lesina. The Prento is now called the Fortore. 



6 To distinguish it from Teanum of the Sidicini, previously mentioned. 



7 Between the Tifernus and the Frento. Its remains are said to be 

 still visible at Licchiano, five miles from San Martino. The Tifernus is 

 now called the Biferno. 



* A people of Central Italy, occupying the tract on the east coast of 

 the peninsula, from the Apennines to the Adriatic, and from the fi-on- 

 tiers of ApuHa to those of the Marrucini. 



^ Strabo (B. vi.) refers to this tradition, where he mentions the oracle 

 of Calchas, the soothsayer, in Daunia in Southern Italy. Here answers 

 were given in dreams, for those who consulted the oracle had to sacrifice 

 a black ram, and slept a night in the temple, lying on the skin of the 

 victim. 



10 The modern Lucera in the Capitanata. 



11 The birth-place of Horace ; now Yenosa in the BasUicata. 



12 The modern Canosa stands on the site of the citadel of ancient Ca- 

 nusium, an Apulian city of great importance. • The remains of the ancient 

 city are very considerable. 



1' So called, it was said, in remembrance of Argos, the native city of 

 Diomedes. It was an Apuhan city of considerable importance. Some 

 shght traces of it are stdl to be seen at a spot which retains the name of 

 Arpa, five miles from the city of Foggia. 



