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the Norbanenses, tlie Palionenses, the Sturnini^ and the 

 Tutini : there are also the following Salentine nations ; the 

 Aletini-, the Basterbini^, the Neretini, the Uxentini, and 

 the Veretini"*. 



CHAP. 17. (12.) — THE EOIJETH EEGI02f OP ITALY. 



"We now come to the fourth region, which includes the 

 most v^aliant probably of all the nations of Italy. Upon the 

 coast, in the territory of the Frentani^, after the river Tifernus, 

 we find the river Trinium^, with a good harbour at its mouth, 

 the towns of Histonium'^, Buca^, and Ortona, and the river 

 Aternus®. In the interior are the Anxani surnamed Frentani, 

 the Higher and Lower Carentini^*^, and the Lanuenses ; in the 

 territory of the Marrucini, the Teatini^^ ; in that of thePeligni, 

 the Corfinienses^-, the Superaequani^^, and the Sulmonenses^'* ; 



^ D'Anville places their city, Stunii, at the present Ostuni, not far 

 from the Adriatic, and foiu'teen leagues from Otranto. 



2 The people of Aletiiim already mentioned. 



3 Their town possibly stood on the site of the present village of Veste, 

 to the west of Castro. The Neretini were probably the people of the 

 present Nardo. 



^ Probably the people of the town which stood on the site of the pre- 

 sent San Verato. 



^ They occupied what is now called the Abnizzo Inferiors. 



^ Now the Trigno. 



7 On the site of the present Vasto d'Ammone, five miles south of the 

 Punta della Penna. Tliere are numerous remains of the ancient city. 



' According to Strabo Buca bordered on the temtory of Teanum, 

 which would place its site at Termoh, a seaport tliree miles from the 

 mouth of the Bifemo or Tifernus. Other wi-iters, however, following 

 Phny, have placed it on the Punta della Penna, where considerable re- 

 mains were visible in the 17th century. Ortona still retains its ancient 

 name. ^ Now the Pescara. 



^^ The sites of their towns are unknown ; but D'Anville supposes the 

 Higher or Upper Carentum to have occupied the site of the modem Civita 

 Burella, and the Lower one the Civita del Conte. 



^1 Teate is supposed to be the present Chicti. 



^2 The people of Corfinium, the chief city of the Pehgni. It is sup- 

 posed to have remained in existence up to the tenth century. Its ruins 

 ai'e seen near Pcntima, about the church of San Pehno. 



^3 The site of Supera;quum is occupied by the present Caatel Vecchio 

 Subequo. 



^* The people of Sulmo, a to\NTi ninety miles from Rome. It was the 

 birth-place of Ovid, and was famoiis for the coldness of its waters, a 



