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only inland community of the Bruttii are the Aprus- 

 tani, but in the interior of Lucania are the Atinates, 

 Bantini, Eburini, Grumentini, Potentini, Sontini, 

 Sirini, Tergilani, Ursentini and Volcentani adjoining 

 whom are the Nuniestrani. Moreover it is stated by 

 Cato that the tovm of Thebes in Lucania has dis- 

 appeared and Theopompus says that there was once 

 a city of the Lucaniaiis named Mardonia, in which 

 Alexander of Epirus died. 



Adjoining this district is the second region ofTheheelof 

 Italy, embracing the Hirpini, Calabria, Apulia and \heAdriaiic 

 the Sallentini with the 250-mile bay named after coasiofitcUy. 

 the Laconian to-ttTi of Taranto (this is situated in the 

 innermost recess of the bay and has had attached to 

 it the sea-board colony that had settled there, and 

 it is 136 miles distant from the promontory of 

 Lacinium), — throwing out Calabria which is opposite 

 to Lacinium to form a peninsula. The Greeks 

 called it Messapia from their leader Messapus, 

 and previously Peucetia from Peucetius the brother 

 of Oenotrius, and it was in the Sallentine territory. 

 The distance between the two headlands is 100 

 miles ; and the breadth of the peninsula overland 

 from Taranto to Brindisi is 35 miles, and considerably 

 less if measured from the port of Sasine. The towns 

 inland from Taranto are Uria, which has the surname 

 of Messapia to distinguish it from Uria in Apulia, 

 and Sarmadium ; on the coast are Senum and 

 Gallipoli, the present Anxa, 75 miles from Taranto, 

 Next, 33 milcs farther, the promontory callcd the 

 lapygian Point," where Italy projects farthest into 

 the sea. Nineteen miles from this point are the towns 

 of Vaste and Otranto, at the boundary between the 

 lonian Sea and the Adriatic, where is the shortest 



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